# Eduardo Arroyo artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1937-02-26
- Death date: 2018-10-14
- Nationality: Spanish
- Movements: Politically committed realism, New Figuration
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Graphic art and printmaking, Engraving and lithography, Watercolor, Theater and costume design

## Portrait

![Eduardo Arroyo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Eduardo_Arroyo_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Marisa González · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eduardo_Arroyo_(cropped).jpg

## About Eduardo Arroyo

Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018) was a Spanish painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and designer born in Madrid. After moving to France, he became active in the Salon de la Jeune Peinture and emerged within the New Figuration context. His work is frequently discussed in relation to politically committed realism, combining figurative imagery with critical or socially engaged subject matter. Arroyo worked across painting, prints, sculpture, watercolor, and theater design, making his name relevant across several collecting categories. Collectors may encounter his work as paintings, works on paper, editions, sculptures, and related graphic or decorative pieces. Identifying the medium, date, provenance, and attribution is therefore especially important when comparing works associated with his name.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal records for Eduardo Arroyo may include paintings, prints, engravings, lithographs, watercolors, drawings or other works on paper, sculptures, mixed-media objects, decorative works, and editions. His broader practice also included graphic art and theater-related design. For a particular object, record the medium, support or construction, dimensions, date, signature, edition details where applicable, provenance, and condition before selecting comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisals of Eduardo Arroyo works should begin with genuinely comparable objects. Medium, dimensions, date, career period, condition, restoration, signature, inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can all affect interpretation. Subject matter and rarity may also matter, particularly when comparing paintings with prints, sculpture, or editions. Public auction records provide useful comparison points, but they do not represent every private sale and may differ in whether buyer premiums or fees are included. Authentication, attribution, and condition should be reviewed independently before treating a recorded result as evidence for a specific work.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555137
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/026692279
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/7665
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500037981
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/90280237/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11889226r
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Arroyo
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Arroyo
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Arroyo
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/eduardo-arroyo/