# Carmelo García Barrena artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/carmelo-garcia-barrena/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:54:22.248Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Carmelo García Barrena](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Garcia_Barrena.jpg/1280px-Garcia_Barrena.jpg)
Carmelo4 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garcia_Barrena.jpg

## About Carmelo García Barrena

Carmelo García Barrena (1926–2000) was a Spanish painter whose identity is represented across several international authority systems, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, ISNI, GND, and RKDartists. These linked records help distinguish him from artists with similar names and provide a stable basis for cataloguing auction appearances. The collected sources confirm his profession and lifespan but contain little dependable information about his training, exhibitions, geographic activity, or artistic development. A Basque-language Wikipedia entry describes him as an Impressionist; because the source pack contains no museum, scholarly, or comparable institution-grade corroboration for that classification, this profile does not assign him to a movement. Collectors are most likely to encounter García Barrena through paintings and auction records. Individual works should therefore be assessed from their own cataloguing, attribution, physical characteristics, and relevant comparable sales rather than from unsupported assumptions about a broader oeuvre.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify García Barrena as a painter, making paintings the only securely supported work type for this profile. They do not document particular painting techniques, supports, recurring subjects, prints, drawings, sculptures, editions, posters, ceramics, or named series. Any object presented under his name should therefore be catalogued from direct evidence rather than assigned to an undocumented category or period.

## Market and appraisal context

Market assessment for a work associated with Carmelo García Barrena should begin with careful identity and attribution checks against his linked authority records. Painting is the only work category supported by the collected biographical evidence; the source pack does not establish particular techniques, subjects, series, or periods. Where suitable auction records are available, comparable lots should be reviewed using their sale dates, realized prices, and catalogue descriptions. The present source pack does not include enough lot-level evidence to support claims about price direction, scarcity, or demand, so conclusions should remain specific to the submitted work and the quality of the available comparison set.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For García Barrena, the present identity evidence is stronger than the collected biographical and lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8338665
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022385
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95819197/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81136030
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1325130052
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000078917645
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/4632
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmelo_Garc%C3%ADa_Barrena
- Wikipedia: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmelo_Garc%C3%ADa_Barrena
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/carmelo-garcia-barrena/