# David Garibaldi artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-garibaldi/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:01:29.907Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Live performance painting

## Portrait

![David Garibaldi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/David_Garibaldi_Speed_Painter.jpg/1280px-David_Garibaldi_Speed_Painter.jpg)
Erik Drost · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Garibaldi_Speed_Painter.jpg

## About David Garibaldi

David Garibaldi is an American performance painter whose public identity centers on creating paintings rapidly before a live audience. His best-known presentation is described as the “Rhythm and Hue” stage act, in which recognizable figures from popular culture emerge during the performance. This combination of painting, music-driven presentation, and entertainment distinguishes his practice from conventional studio-only portrait production. Collectors may encounter completed paintings associated with his live performances, as well as works offered under his name through auction channels. The available source pack establishes his occupation and performance format more clearly than it documents his education, chronology, exhibitions, or formal relationship to a recognized art movement. For appraisal and entity matching, the artist should therefore be identified through the performance-painting context, the Garibaldi Arts official site, and stable Wikidata and Wikipedia profiles rather than by name alone, particularly because detailed biographical identifiers such as a verified birth date are absent from the collected evidence.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources primarily associate Garibaldi with paintings produced during rapid live performances, especially images of recognizable popular-culture figures. Paintings and performance-related works are therefore the clearest documented work types. Appraisily's matched records also use broader categories such as works on paper, prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions, but the source pack does not establish that these categories are consistently representative of his output. Any such object should be evaluated individually for medium, authorship, signature, edition information, and provenance.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily currently reports a small matched dataset of 11 public-auction records, seven of which contain prices, spanning 2014 through 2025. That limited coverage should be treated as a starting point rather than a complete market history. Useful comparisons should align as closely as possible on medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, signature or inscriptions, edition status, provenance, and attribution confidence. A documented connection to a live performance may also require object-specific provenance review. Private sales and incomplete auction feeds may not appear in the dataset, while reported totals can differ in their handling of fees or buyer premiums. Because the artist's name can be confused with other people, each comparable lot should be checked for a reliable identity match before its result informs an appraisal.

## 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. Identity matches and object-level attribution should be verified before market records are used in an appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5234028
- David Garibaldi: http://www.garibaldiarts.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garibaldi_(artist)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-garibaldi/