Joan Brotat Auction Prices and Value Guide
Joan Brotat auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 236 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Joan Brotat auction prices: quick answer
Joan Brotat auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Joan Brotat
- Source records
- 236
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Joan Brotat market snapshot
Joan Brotat shows solid auction liquidity with 63 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $480. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-16.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (83.9% · 26 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (16.1% · 5 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $650
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 6
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-09-16
Artist context
About Joan Brotat
Born
1920
Died
1990
Also known as
Joan Brotat Vilanova, Joan Brotat i Vilanova
Joan Brotat (1920–1990) was a Barcelona-born painter whose work developed within the Catalan art environment of the mid-twentieth century. He is also described as an engraver. Available biographies identify an early interval of Informalist, collage, and gestural experimentation, followed by a distinctive return to figuration. From around 1949, his imagery increasingly drew on the simplified forms and expressive directness associated with Catalan Romanesque painting and primitivism. Faces and human figures became especially characteristic, often carrying a quiet or melancholy emotional tone. A Spanish-language account places his work near Catalan new figuration while noting his distance from the region’s dominant artistic groups; this classification still needs institution-grade corroboration. His development reportedly included a richly textured, expressionist phase and a later return to more pared-back figuration. Collectors may consequently encounter paintings and graphic works whose appearance varies substantially according to date and stylistic phase.
PaintingEngravingCollage and gestural experimentation during an early phaseFigurative human subjects and facesMelancholy faces
Common works and media
The collected biographies associate Brotat most clearly with paintings, while a Catalan-language profile also identifies him as an engraver. Descriptions repeatedly emphasize figurative imagery, particularly stylized human figures and melancholy faces, shaped by primitivist simplification and Catalan Romanesque visual traditions. The sources also describe an early experimental interval involving Informalism, collage, and gestural work, followed by more textural expressionism and a later return to cleaner figuration. The pack does not establish named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, or poster production, so works in those categories require separate evidence before being treated as representative.
Market and appraisal context
An appraisal of a work attributed to Joan Brotat should first identify its medium and likely position within his stylistic development. The collected sources describe both painting and engraving, as well as changes from early experimentation to Romanesque-influenced primitivist figuration, richer expressionist surfaces, and later simplified figurative work. These distinctions can guide the selection of genuinely comparable auction lots, particularly when the subject centers on Brotat’s characteristic human figures or faces. The present source pack does not include usable major-auction-house cataloguing, realized-price histories, or edition documentation. It therefore supports identity and stylistic comparison, but not price predictions. Any valuation should rely on verified public sale records matched by medium, approximate date, technique, and closely related subject matter.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Engravings
Value drivers
- Medium and technique: paintings and engravings should be compared with works in the same medium
- Stylistic phase: comparable selection should distinguish early experimentation, Romanesque-influenced primitivist figuration, textural expressionism, and later pared-back figuration
- Subject matter: face-centered figurative works should be compared with works having closely related imagery
Appraisal caveats
- The collected pack contains no usable major-auction-house catalogue pages or realized-price evidence, so it does not support price forecasts or market-trend claims.
- The Appraisily input reports 236 auction records, but the public artist page was rate-limited during collection; category frequency, sale outcomes, and comparable-lot details were not independently characterized.
- The available sources do not document named series, edition sizes, or a catalogue raisonné.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin source quality.
Data basis
This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Joan Brotat worth?
Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.
Can Appraisily value my Joan Brotat artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.