# Carlos Almaraz artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/carlos-almaraz/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:39:26.196Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Chicano art movement
- Common media: Painting, Mural painting

## Portrait

![Carlos Almaraz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Carlos_Almaraz.jpg/1280px-Carlos_Almaraz.jpg)
Ellen Jaskol, Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carlos_Almaraz.jpg

## About Carlos Almaraz

Carlos Almaraz (1941–1989) was an American artist whose Mexican-American identity and participation in Chicano art are central to his public record. Authority sources identify him as a painter and muralist, while biographical sources describe him as a pioneer of the Chicano art movement. He also helped establish Centro de Arte Público, a Chicano arts organization active in Highland Park, Los Angeles, from 1977 to 1979. These associations place his practice within the cultural and community-based art history of Los Angeles as well as the broader history of American painting and muralism. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Almaraz through auction catalogues and artist-market databases, where accurate identity matching is especially important. His established authority records—including entries in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress—help connect variant catalogue descriptions to the same artist.

## Common works and media

The collected authority evidence identifies Carlos Almaraz primarily as a painter and muralist. Paintings are therefore the clearest supported category for auction and appraisal research. Mural-related work belongs to his documented practice, although this source pack does not establish murals as commonly traded objects. It also does not provide enough institution-grade detail to characterize recurring subjects, named series, editions, prints, drawings, or other formats without further research.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Carlos Almaraz should begin by establishing identity, medium, and work type against recognized authority records. Public auction records can then provide comparison points when they describe sufficiently similar works and disclose sale dates and realized prices. The current source pack identifies painting and mural work but does not document market premiums for particular subjects, periods, dimensions, conditions, or provenances. It also contains no accessible major-auction-house lot analysis or reliable price trend. Any valuation should therefore rely on the individual object's physical evidence, documented history, attribution, and genuinely comparable public sales rather than a general artist-level price assumption.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are publicly available. Source gaps are retained rather than replaced with unsupported market conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5041737
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500015785
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95777860/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79071847
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Almaraz
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/carlos-almaraz/