# Armando Barrios artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/armando-barrios/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:24:50.719Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Murals, Paintings, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Decorative art and editions

## About Armando Barrios

Armando Barrios is an artist whose identity is linked across Wikidata and several library and art-authority systems, including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the German National Library, and ISNI. The collected institutional records do not expose enough biographical detail to state birth and death dates, nationality, training, or an artistic movement with confidence. Publicly documented works at the Universidad Central de Venezuela include murals dated 1951 and 1953, showing that large-scale, site-specific work belongs to the available record. In auction contexts, the name appears across paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions, although the current Appraisily sample is sparse and broadly categorized. Collectors may therefore encounter varied objects under this name, and each attribution should be checked against signatures, inscriptions, provenance, dates, and documented references rather than inferred from the name alone.

## Common works and media

The source pack documents large-scale murals by Armando Barrios at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, including examples dated 1951 and 1953. Appraisily's matched auction records also place the name in broad categories covering paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions. Because those categories are sparse and not yet supported by detailed lot-level analysis in this pack, they should be treated as possible appraisal contexts rather than a definitive catalogue of the artist's production.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction evidence for Armando Barrios is limited in the collected source pack. Appraisily's current page lists 15 matched records, only five with prices, while a summary on the same page refers to 14 tracked lots; the scope should be reconciled before treating either count as definitive. For appraisal, compare works by medium, size, date, condition, restoration, provenance, exhibition or catalogue history, signature and inscriptions, edition information, and attribution confidence. Similar subject matter and recent public results can help frame a comparison, but recorded prices are not predictions for another object. Private sales, incomplete feeds, buyer-premium conventions, and later attribution changes may not be represented consistently.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Incomplete feeds, private transactions, and later attribution changes may limit coverage.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109869346
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500151435
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96658132/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80148370
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/120068672
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000114781678
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/armando-barrios/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ciudad_Universitaria_de_Caracas,_Mural_de_Armando_Barrios_(Plaza_del_Rectorado).JPG
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UCV_2015-001_Mural_de_Armando_Barrios,_1953.JPG
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UCV_2015-401_Armando_Barrios,_1951.JPG