Marcelo Bonevardi Auction Prices and Value Guide
Marcelo Bonevardi auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 122 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Marcelo Bonevardi auction prices: quick answer
Marcelo Bonevardi auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Marcelo Bonevardi
- Source records
- 122
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Marcelo Bonevardi market snapshot
Marcelo Bonevardi shows solid auction liquidity with 78 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $10,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-03.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (16.3% · 8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (32.7% · 16 sales)
- $10,000+ (51.0% · 25 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $4,000
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 3
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-03
Artist context
About Marcelo Bonevardi
Born
1929
Died
1994
Nationality
Argentine
Marcelo Bonevardi (1929–1994) was an Argentine-born artist whose mature career unfolded largely in New York City. He is associated with the Latin American avant-garde and is especially known for mixed-media shaped canvases that cross the conventional boundary between painting and sculpture. His architectural training and continuing interest in constructed form helped shape works with irregular profiles, layered surfaces, and object-like physical presence. Bonevardi absorbed currents of abstraction and other avant-garde practices while developing a personal symbolic vocabulary concerned with spirituality, myth, and ritual. Collectors most often encounter his work through mixed-media compositions and shaped constructions rather than conventional representational painting. These distinctive formats make accurate descriptions of materials, support, dimensions, and construction especially important when identifying or comparing an example. Although authority and museum profiles establish Bonevardi as a documented twentieth-century artist, the collected biographical detail is limited and should be expanded with museum, estate, or scholarly research when available.
Latin American avant-gardeAbstractionMixed mediaShaped canvas combining painted and sculptural elementsSpiritualityMyth and ritual
Common works and media
Bonevardi is most closely associated with mixed-media pieces and shaped canvases that combine painted surfaces with sculptural construction. Works may use abstract, object-like forms and a symbolic language connected with spirituality, myth, and ritual. Auction and appraisal descriptions should clearly separate conventional flat works from irregularly shaped or constructed examples.
Market and appraisal context
A Bonevardi appraisal should begin by identifying the work's medium, support, dimensions, and physical construction. Shaped canvases and mixed-media painting-sculpture hybrids belong to the practice for which he is best known, so comparisons should distinguish those objects from materially different works. Relevant public auction records are best grouped by work type and then reviewed by sale date and realized price. The collected source pack does not include detailed major-auction-house commentary, however, so it does not support a price trend or prediction. Provenance, condition, attribution, and dating remain important matters to document for an individual object, but their specific market effects should be assessed from the work itself and suitable comparable sales rather than assumed from this profile.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Mixed-media works
- Shaped canvases and painting-sculpture hybrids
Value drivers
- Medium, format, and construction, including whether the work incorporates shaped-canvas or sculptural elements
- Relationship to the shaped-canvas practice for which Bonevardi is best known
- Comparable public auction records organized by work type, sale date, and realized price
Appraisal caveats
- The collected pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no accessible major-auction-house narrative or detailed lot records.
- No directional price claim is warranted from this source pack alone.
- Condition, provenance, dimensions, attribution, and dating should be documented for an individual appraisal, but their market effects are not established by the collected sources.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
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 Marcelo Bonevardi 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 Marcelo Bonevardi artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.