Luis Meléndez Auction Prices and Value Guide

Luis Meléndez auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 222 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Luis Meléndez auction prices: quick answer

Luis Meléndez auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Luis Meléndez
Source records
222
Market update
2026-02-06

Luis Meléndez market snapshot

Luis Meléndez shows developing auction liquidity with 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $361,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-13.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $10,000+ (100.0% · 6 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
1
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-09-13

Artist context

About Luis Meléndez

Luis Meléndez portrait
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Source

Born

1716

Died

1780

Nationality

Spanish

Also known as

Luis Egidio Meléndez, Luis Eugenio Meléndez, Luis Eugidio Meléndez

Luis Meléndez (1716–1780), also recorded as Luis Egidio, Luis Eugenio, or Luis Eugidio Meléndez, was a Spanish painter identified especially with eighteenth-century still-life painting. Public descriptions emphasize his close observation of ordinary food and kitchen objects and his handling of composition, light, volume, and surface texture. These qualities made everyday provisions the central subjects of carefully organized paintings rather than incidental decorative details. Collectors may encounter his work under more than one given-name variant, making identity normalization important when consulting collection catalogues, bibliographic records, and auction listings. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and IdRef connect these variants with the painter who lived from 1716 to 1780. The collected material supports his classification as a Spanish painter and still-life specialist, but it does not provide enough institution-grade narrative detail to assign a specific movement or reconstruct a complete career chronology.

PaintingStill lifeFood and ordinary kitchen objects

Common works and media

Public descriptions identify Meléndez principally with paintings, especially still lifes centered on food and ordinary kitchen fare. The source pack does not establish recurring auction categories for prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editions, so those work types should not be presented as characteristic without additional evidence.

Market and appraisal context

The available source pack supports auction comparison at the level of artist identity, work type, and still-life subject, but it does not support a price forecast. Research should begin by resolving the recorded Meléndez name variants and identifying paintings with genuinely comparable subjects. Appraisily’s public artist page indicates an associated auction-record set, although the collected pack contains no individual lot descriptions, measurements, condition reports, provenance, attribution wording, estimates, currencies, realized prices, or sale dates. Those fields should be checked in the underlying records before selecting comparables. Works catalogued merely as attributed to, after, or in the manner of an artist should not be treated as equivalent to firmly attributed works.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Still-life paintings
  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Artist attribution and identity matching across recorded name variants
  2. Work type and still-life subject
  3. Comparison with relevant public auction records catalogued under the normalized artist identity

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack does not expose individual lot descriptions, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, attribution qualifiers, estimates, realized prices, currencies, or sale dates.
  • The presence of an auction record under this artist name does not by itself establish authorship or make that record an appropriate comparable.
  • Movement labels and detailed chronology should remain unassigned until supported by accessible museum or scholarly documentation.

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 Luis Meléndez

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Luis Meléndez 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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