# Jose Parla artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jose-parla/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:08:25.480Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Movements: Contemporary art
- Common media: Painting, Multidisciplinary work, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Editions

## Portrait

![Jose Parla](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Jose_wiki.jpg)
Rey Parlá · CC BY 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jose_wiki.jpg

## About Jose Parla

José Parlá (born 1973) is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. International authority records identify him as José Parlá and establish his birth year and occupation as an artist. His practice encompasses painting and multidisciplinary work, using the visual character of layered, weathered urban surfaces to consider memory, identity, migration, time, language, and the meaning of place. The collected sources do not establish a more specific named movement, so contemporary art is the most careful contextual description. Collectors may encounter Parlá through paintings as well as works on paper, prints, mixed-media objects, sculpture, and editions. These formats bring different questions of scale, surface, production, and condition. His emphasis on accumulated marks and urban textures also makes close examination especially important: material distinctions, surface preservation, inscriptions, and documented history may help separate otherwise similar-looking works when researching an object for auction or appraisal.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include Parlá paintings, works on paper, prints, mixed-media works, sculpture, and editions. Collected biographical material describes paintings and multidisciplinary works informed by layered urban surfaces, with recurring concerns including memory, identity, migration, time, and place. For prints and other editions, edition number and production details warrant review; for paintings and mixed-media works, dimensions, materials, inscriptions, provenance, restoration, and surface condition are especially relevant.

## Market and appraisal context

José Parlá has an established public auction record across paintings, works on paper, prints, mixed media, sculpture, and editions. A useful appraisal comparison should match the object as closely as possible by medium, dimensions, date, condition, surface quality, attribution, and edition status. Signature or inscription details, provenance, exhibition history, restoration, and catalogue references can further affect how a work is classified and compared. Public results should not be treated as automatic price predictions: reporting may differ on premiums and fees, while private sales and incomplete feeds may be absent. Recent comparable lots provide the strongest market context when their physical characteristics and attribution are genuinely similar.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/262700552/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6293666
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/180963805
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Parl%C3%A1
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jose-parla/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jose_wiki.jpg