# Jose Vives-Atsara artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-10-21T06:55:09.887Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1919-04-30
- Death date: 2004-01-13
- Nationality: Spanish, American
- Common media: Oil painting

## About Jose Vives-Atsara

Jose Vives-Atsara was a Spanish-born painter associated with Vilafranca del Penedès in Catalonia and, after settling in San Antonio in 1956, with the Texas art community. Born in 1919, he began studying art as a child and later developed a long painting career that continued across Europe, Latin America, and the United States. He is also identified in Catalan cultural programming as Josep Vives-Atsarà. Collectors most often encounter his work through oil paintings offered in regional and national auction settings. Recorded lot descriptions point to both Catalan subjects and Texas scenes, reflecting the geographic worlds that shaped his life and collecting audience. Vives-Atsara died in 2004.

## Common works and media

The available auction evidence principally identifies Vives-Atsara oil paintings. Recorded descriptions include a 1961 Catalan village subject and a Texas sunset scene, so landscapes and place-based compositions are relevant starting points when matching a work to auction comparables. For any painting attributed to him, document the front and reverse, signature, title or date, dimensions, medium, frame, labels, ownership history, and condition before selecting comparables.

## Market and appraisal context

Auction records collected by Appraisily show an active secondary market for Jose Vives-Atsara, with oil paintings appearing repeatedly at auction. An appraisal should begin with the individual work rather than an artist-wide statistic: identify the exact subject, date, medium, dimensions, signature and any inscriptions, then compare it with public lots of similar scale and character. Condition, provenance, framing, attribution confidence, and the quality of the available sale comparables can affect a result materially. Recorded auction prices may include buyer premiums or fees differently across houses, and public results do not capture every private transaction.

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## Sources

- Dignity Memorial (family obituary): https://dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/san-antonio-tx/jose-vives-atsara-12194628
- Surtdecasa.cat (Penedès cultural agenda; event organized by Ajuntament de Vilafranca del Penedès): https://surtdecasa.cat/penedes/agenda/homenatge-al-pintor-josep-vives-atsara
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/api/scraper-search/artists/jose-vives-atsara/llm.md