# Francisco Sobrino artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:43:38.149Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish
- Movements: Kinetic art
- Common media: Sculpture, Object art

## Portrait

![Francisco Sobrino](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Sobrino.png)
Pantalaskas · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sobrino.png

## About Francisco Sobrino

Francisco Sobrino (1932–2014) was a Spanish artist and sculptor born in Guadalajara. After moving to Paris in 1959, he developed a career centered on sculpture, object-based work, and kinetic art. Biographical references identify him as a 1960 co-founder of Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV), alongside Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Horacio Garcia Rossi, Joël Stein, and Yvaral. This association places Sobrino within the collaborative visual-art environment of postwar Paris. Public references also describe his work as visible in cities including Tel Aviv, Guadalajara, Chicago, Madrid, New York, and Paris. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in modern and postwar sculpture, kinetic-art, and object-art catalogues, as well as in records connected with GRAV. Authority files standardize his identity as Francisco Sobrino or Francisco Sobrino Ochoa, helping distinguish his auction records from those of similarly named people.

## Common works and media

Sobrino is most consistently described as a sculptor and kinetic or object artist. Auction and appraisal searches are therefore most likely to surface sculptures, kinetic constructions, and other object-based works. The collected evidence does not support a more specific list of materials, named series, editions, or recurring subjects, so those characteristics should be established from the individual work and its catalogue entry.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, the first task is to establish whether an object is being presented as sculpture, object art, or kinetic art, the principal work types documented in the collected sources. Relevant public auction records should then be compared within the closest work category and by sale date and realized result. The source pack confirms that Appraisily maintains an auction-price page for Sobrino, but it does not provide lot-level descriptions, materials, dimensions, edition information, condition notes, or provenance. Those details should be verified from the individual work and its sale record before drawing a valuation conclusion. No price trend or forward-looking value claim is supported here.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325217
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/20002920/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500172820
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/francisco-sobrino-1960
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Sobrino
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Sobrino
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Sobrino
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/francisco-sobrino/