# Jose Mijares artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:02:50.519Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Cuban
- Common media: Painting

## About Jose Mijares

José María Mijares (1921–2004), commonly listed as José Mijares, was a Cuban painter associated with twentieth-century Cuban art. Biographical material in the collected source pack says he studied at Havana’s San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, later taught there, and was influenced by artists connected with the Havana School. It also places him among Los Diez Pintores Concretos, a short-lived group active from 1959 to 1961 and associated with the development of Cuban concrete art. Mijares left Cuba in 1968 and continued working in Miami. Collectors may encounter his name in abbreviated form or under the fuller authority heading José María Mijares Fernández, so matching signatures, cataloguing, and provenance to the correct identity matters. The available sources establish him primarily as a painter, but they do not provide enough institution-grade detail to define a complete catalogue of his mediums, subjects, or stylistic phases.

## Common works and media

The collected authority and biographical sources consistently identify Mijares as a painter, making paintings the clearest supported work type for auction and appraisal searches. This source pack does not reliably establish particular paint media, recurring subjects, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, or named series. Those details should be taken from the object itself, its documentation, and comparable lot cataloguing rather than inferred from the artist’s name.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work belongs to the Cuban painter José María Mijares rather than another person with the same abbreviated name. When reliable lot records are available, useful comparisons consider the stated attribution, work type, medium, date, dimensions, subject, condition, provenance, sale date, and realized price. Comparable lots should be similar in more than name alone. The collected input indicates a substantial public auction-record footprint, but the source pack did not expose individual records or a major-auction-house biography. Any market conclusion therefore requires inspection of the specific object and current, verifiable comparable sales rather than an unsupported price forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5944075
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/60830138/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500118202
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97060629
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Mijares
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jose-mijares/