# Josep Maria Riera i Aragó artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/josep-maria-riera-i-arago/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:36:58.379Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish, Catalan
- Common media: Sculpture, Painting, Graphic work, Bronze, Iron

## About Josep Maria Riera i Aragó

Josep Maria Riera i Aragó is a Barcelona-born Spanish and Catalan artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, painting, and graphic work. Born in 1954, he studied at the Sant Jordi Fine Arts School and graduated in 1973. Mechanical forms are a recurring focus: available biographical material describes machines rendered through an imaginative visual language and notes the use of recycled bronze and iron. His practice ranges from objects suited to galleries and private collections to large sculptures created for public spaces. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on materially and physically different works, including metal sculpture, paintings, and graphic pieces. That breadth makes accurate classification important when researching an example. The collected sources identify his media and machine-related subject matter but do not securely assign him to a named art movement, so the artist is best described through his documented practice rather than an unsupported stylistic label.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Riera i Aragó include sculpture, painting, and graphic art. Machine-like forms are a recurring documented subject, while bronze and iron are specifically reported among his sculptural materials. His output also includes large works for public spaces, so dimensions and object type should be established before comparing an example with auction records. The available sources do not identify specific print editions or formally named series.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily currently associates this artist page with 182 auction records, indicating a meaningful body of market observations, but the count alone is not a valuation conclusion. Research should distinguish sculpture from painting or graphic work and, for sculpture, record whether the object is bronze, iron, or another material. Scale and intended setting also matter when comparing a smaller collectible object with the artist's documented public-space sculpture. The collected source pack did not expose individual auction results or a major auction-house biography, so it does not support claims about price direction, scarcity, or a typical value range. A defensible appraisal should rely on closely comparable, publicly documented lots rather than the artist name by itself.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q768731
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/25410582/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93038000
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/119346737
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000059200438
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/031533175
- Josep Maria Riera i Aragó: http://rieraiarago.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Riera_i_Arag%C3%B3
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Maria_Riera_i_Arag%C3%B3
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Riera_i_Arago