# Jose Clemente Orozco artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1883-11-23
- Death date: 1949-09-07
- Nationality: Mexican
- Movements: Mexican muralism, Social realism
- Common media: Murals, Fresco, Painting, Lithography and other graphic work

## Portrait

![Jose Clemente Orozco](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Jos%C3%A9_Clemente_Orozco%2C_c1930.jpg/1280px-Jos%C3%A9_Clemente_Orozco%2C_c1930.jpg)
Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jos%C3%A9_Clemente_Orozco,_c1930.jpg

## About Jose Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) was a Mexican painter, muralist, and lithographer central to the Mexican mural movement. Working within a generation that included Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, he created public murals concerned with political and social experience while also producing easel paintings and graphic work. His documented mural activity extended from 1922 to 1948 and included projects in Mexico and the United States, with sites in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Claremont, New York, and Hanover. Museum and library authority profiles establish his international institutional presence, while bibliographic records document sustained study of his graphic work. Collectors are more likely to encounter portable works—particularly lithographs, works on paper, and paintings—than the site-specific murals for which he is widely known. Accurate entity matching is important because catalogues and auction records use both accented and unaccented forms of his name.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts most often involve Orozco's portable work: paintings, drawings and other works on paper, lithographs, and editioned graphic pieces. Murals and fresco projects define an important part of his reputation but are generally tied to architectural sites rather than ordinary auction circulation. For prints, collectors should record the image and sheet dimensions, signature, inscriptions, edition notation, paper condition, and any printer or publication information. Unique works require close attention to medium, support, surface condition, restoration, provenance, and attribution.

## Market and appraisal context

Orozco auction results should be compared within the same medium and work type. A signed lithograph from a documented edition is not directly comparable to a unique painting or drawing. Dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, inscriptions, edition details, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and attribution confidence can all affect an appraisal. Recent public results for genuinely similar works provide more useful context than an artist-wide median. Reported prices may include different fee treatments, while private transactions and attribution changes may be absent from public datasets. Physical inspection and specialist authentication may therefore be necessary before assigning a final value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public results are starting evidence and do not replace authentication, condition review, or a work-specific appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332041
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012316
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027779580
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4430
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5136.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Clemente_Orozco
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Clemente_Orozco
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Clemente_Orozco
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jose-clemente-orozco/