Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Auction Prices and Value Guide

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 503 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida auction prices: quick answer

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Source records
503
Market update
2026-02-16

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida market snapshot

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida shows deep auction liquidity with 179 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $61,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 13 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-10.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (2.7% · 3 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (10.8% · 12 sales)
  • $10,000+ (86.5% · 96 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$6,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
13
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-02-10

Artist context

About Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida portrait
Didier Descouens · Public domain · Source

Born

1863

Died

1923

Nationality

Spanish

Also known as

Joaquín Sorolla

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923), commonly identified as Joaquín Sorolla, was a Spanish painter known for portraits, landscapes, and large compositions with social or historical subjects. Public biographical sources particularly associate his work with people, scenery, and water observed in the intense light of Spain. This emphasis on illumination and outdoor atmosphere gives many of his paintings an immediately recognizable visual character without requiring a single movement label that the collected authority sources do not establish. Collectors may encounter formal portraits, landscape and marine subjects, sunlit figure scenes, and more ambitious narrative paintings. Sorolla's identity is supported by several international authority records, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, IdRef, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. His continuing visibility in public auction data means that careful entity matching is important: records may use either his full name, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, or the shorter Joaquín Sorolla.

PaintingWorks on paper and prints represented in auction recordsPortraitsLandscapesPeople and landscapes in bright Spanish sunlightSunlit water and marine settings

Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts most often involve paintings, including portraits, landscapes, marine or sunlit-water subjects, figure scenes, and compositions with social or historical themes. The collected auction page also groups some records under works on paper and prints. Medium, support, dimensions, date, inscriptions, and attribution should be verified for each object rather than inferred from its subject alone.

Market and appraisal context

Sorolla's auction results should be compared with works that align in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution. Provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, signatures, inscriptions, restoration, and surface quality can also affect how a lot is assessed. A portrait, landscape, marine scene, or figure composition should not be compared mechanically with a work from a different category or career period. Appraisily's collected page reports substantial public-auction coverage, but recorded results remain an incomplete view of the market. Private transactions may be absent, attribution can change, and reported totals may treat buyer premiums differently. A defensible appraisal therefore relies on closely comparable lots and direct examination rather than a single aggregate price.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Fine art and paintings
  • Works on paper and prints

Value drivers

  1. Medium, dimensions, date, and position within the artist's career
  2. Condition, restoration history, and surface quality
  3. Signature, inscriptions, edition details, and attribution confidence
  4. Provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references
  5. Subject matter, rarity, and recent comparable auction sales for similar works

Appraisal caveats

  • Public auction results are starting points for comparison, not final appraisals.
  • Reported totals may include buyer premiums or fees, so comparable results should be evaluated on a like-for-like basis.
  • Private sales, incomplete auction feeds, and later attribution changes may not appear in the public record.
  • Authentication, attribution, and condition can materially alter an appraisal conclusion.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

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.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida 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.

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