# Angel Zárraga artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/angel-zarraga/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:24:37.059Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1886-08-16
- Death date: 1946-09-22
- Nationality: Mexican
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Angel Zárraga](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Angel_Zarraga.jpg)
http://www.museoblaisten.com/v2008/indexESP.asp?myURL=artistDetailSpanish&artistId=5 · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_Zarraga.jpg

## About Angel Zárraga

Ángel Zárraga (1886–1946), whose fuller name appears as Ángel Zárraga y Argüelles, was a Mexican painter. International authority records identify him through several accented and unaccented name forms, an important distinction when matching catalogues and auction records. He was associated with the Mexican cultural organization El Ateneo de la Juventud as a founding member. His work also participated in the art competitions connected with the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. Collectors principally encounter Zárraga through paintings and through auction cataloguing under variants such as Ángel Zárraga and Angel Zarraga. The available sources establish his identity, occupation, nationality, and life dates more securely than they establish a particular movement, recurring subject, or named series. Those stylistic classifications should therefore be added only when supported by scholarly or work-specific documentation.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only work type securely supported by the collected authority sources, which consistently describe Zárraga as a painter. The source pack does not provide enough reliable work-level evidence to characterize recurring subjects or to identify prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, editions, or named series as common auction material.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records catalogued under Ángel Zárraga provide a starting point for comparison, especially when the artist's accented and unaccented name forms are reconciled. Relevant records should be compared by work type, catalogue attribution, sale date, and realized result when those details are available. The collected evidence does not include major-auction-house analysis, a catalogue raisonné, or work-level documentation covering condition, provenance, dimensions, subjects, editions, or dates. This profile therefore does not support a price prediction or authenticate an object. A defensible appraisal requires examination of the specific work and comparison with sufficiently similar, documented public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251967
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/73989725/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500004055
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Z%C3%A1rraga
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Z%C3%A1rraga
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/angel-zarraga/