# Hernando Ruiz Ocampo artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hernando-ruiz-ocampo/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:41:02.630Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Filipino
- Movements: Modernism
- Common media: Painting

## About Hernando Ruiz Ocampo

Hernando Ruiz Ocampo (1911–1978), commonly identified as Hernando R. Ocampo, was a Filipino visual artist. Public biographical summaries also describe him as a fiction writer, playwright, and editor, placing his visual practice within a broader literary and cultural career. A Dutch-language biography characterizes him as a modernist painter, while the collected Wikipedia entries identify his posthumous recognition as a Philippine National Artist in visual arts. These sources establish the core identity behind works encountered under his full and abbreviated names. The available pack does not, however, include a museum collection essay, catalogue raisonné, estate archive, or detailed chronology. It consequently cannot support a fuller account of his stylistic development, preferred subjects, techniques, or named bodies of work. Collectors should treat this as an identity-grounded overview and rely on object-specific documentation when assessing a work attributed to Ocampo.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only object category identified by the available biographical evidence, which describes Ocampo as a modernist painter. The source pack does not establish characteristic materials, recurring subjects, named series, editioned prints, drawings, sculpture, or other work types. Those details should be determined from the object itself and corroborated with catalogued examples or complete auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input reports 289 records associated with Hernando Ruiz Ocampo, indicating that collectors may encounter his name in auction research. The retrieved source pack does not provide individual lot descriptions, realized prices, sale dates, condition reports, or provenance histories, however. A responsible appraisal should first confirm that the object and artist identity are correctly associated, then consult genuinely comparable public lots where complete records are available. Comparable work type, sale timing, and documented results can provide context, but this pack does not establish how any particular characteristic affects Ocampo’s market. No price forecast or market trend is inferred from the record count alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes verified identity evidence from market details that were unavailable in the collected source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4704448
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/13830797/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87827688
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/139418377
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000071459098
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_R._Ocampo
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_Ocampo
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hernando-ruiz-ocampo/