# Emilio Sánchez artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/emilio-sanchez/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:22:13.569Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1921-06-10
- Death date: 1999-07-07
- Nationality: Cuban
- Common media: Painting, Lithography and printmaking, Drawing

## About Emilio Sánchez

Emilio Sánchez (1921–1999), also identified in authority records as Emilio Sánchez Font, was a Cuban artist whose career connected Havana and New York. Born in Camagüey, he lived in Havana during part of his youth and settled in New York in 1952 after studying in the United States. Sánchez worked principally in painting, printmaking, and drawing. He is especially associated with sharply structured architectural imagery and graphic lithographs, subjects and formats that make his work recognizable across museum, collection, and auction contexts. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, drawings, and prints, while authority identifiers help distinguish him from other people named Emilio Sánchez. The supplied records connect his identity with museum profiles at the Museum of Modern Art and National Gallery of Art. No specific art movement is firmly established by the collected evidence, so his Cuban background, New York career, architectural subjects, and graphic practice provide the clearest context for his work.

## Common works and media

Commonly encountered work types include paintings, drawings, prints, and especially graphic lithographs. Architectural imagery is the clearest documented subject focus in the source pack. Collectors should distinguish paintings and drawings from lithographic impressions before selecting comparable records and should not assume that every object signed “Emilio Sánchez” belongs to the same artist without matching it to the established identity of the Cuban artist who lived from 1921 to 1999.

## Market and appraisal context

Works should be compared within the correct category: paintings, drawings, and lithographic prints are not interchangeable market segments. Architectural subjects are a documented focus and provide a useful basis for selecting comparable lots. Identity should also be checked against the authority record for Emilio Sánchez Font (1921–1999), since the name can refer to unrelated people. Appraisily’s public artist page is associated with 227 auction records in the supplied dataset, but that count does not by itself establish value or a price trend. A defensible appraisal should use the closest available public auction records, considering work type, subject, sale date, realized price, and the descriptive context of each comparable lot.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5371950
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/157218449
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5140
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500042016
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/55065931/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99038451
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Sanchez_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_S%C3%A1nchez_Font
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/emilio-sanchez/