Josep Maria Riera i Aragó Auction Prices and Value Guide

Josep Maria Riera i Aragó auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 182 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Josep Maria Riera i Aragó auction prices: quick answer

Josep Maria Riera i Aragó auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Josep Maria Riera i Aragó
Source records
182
Market update
2026-02-16

Josep Maria Riera i Aragó market snapshot

Josep Maria Riera i Aragó shows solid auction liquidity with 105 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 34 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-20.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (60.0% · 27 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (40.0% · 18 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,200
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
34
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-20

Artist context

About Josep Maria Riera i Aragó

Born

1954

Nationality

Spanish, Catalan

Also known as

Josep Riera i Aragó, Josep Riera i Arago

Josep Maria Riera i Aragó is a Barcelona-born Spanish and Catalan artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, painting, and graphic work. Born in 1954, he studied at the Sant Jordi Fine Arts School and graduated in 1973. Mechanical forms are a recurring focus: available biographical material describes machines rendered through an imaginative visual language and notes the use of recycled bronze and iron. His practice ranges from objects suited to galleries and private collections to large sculptures created for public spaces. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on materially and physically different works, including metal sculpture, paintings, and graphic pieces. That breadth makes accurate classification important when researching an example. The collected sources identify his media and machine-related subject matter but do not securely assign him to a named art movement, so the artist is best described through his documented practice rather than an unsupported stylistic label.

SculpturePaintingGraphic workBronzeMachines and mechanical forms

Common works and media

Works associated with Riera i Aragó include sculpture, painting, and graphic art. Machine-like forms are a recurring documented subject, while bronze and iron are specifically reported among his sculptural materials. His output also includes large works for public spaces, so dimensions and object type should be established before comparing an example with auction records. The available sources do not identify specific print editions or formally named series.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisily currently associates this artist page with 182 auction records, indicating a meaningful body of market observations, but the count alone is not a valuation conclusion. Research should distinguish sculpture from painting or graphic work and, for sculpture, record whether the object is bronze, iron, or another material. Scale and intended setting also matter when comparing a smaller collectible object with the artist's documented public-space sculpture. The collected source pack did not expose individual auction results or a major auction-house biography, so it does not support claims about price direction, scarcity, or a typical value range. A defensible appraisal should rely on closely comparable, publicly documented lots rather than the artist name by itself.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Sculpture
  • Paintings
  • Graphic works

Value drivers

  1. Work type and material, including distinctions among bronze or iron sculpture, painting, and graphic work
  2. Scale and intended setting, particularly the distinction between studio-scale objects and large public-space sculpture
  3. Comparable public auction records matched by work type, material, and scale when sufficiently documented records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily inventory signal of 182 records, but the public artist page was rate-limited during collection, so individual sale results were not available for verification.
  • No major auction-house source in the collected pack establishes artist-specific price trends or price ranges.
  • The available sources do not establish named editions, series, or a catalogue raisonné; those details should not be inferred from the artist name alone.

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 Josep Maria Riera i Aragó

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Artist value FAQ

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