# Juan Barjola artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/juan-barjola/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:25:22.835Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish
- Movements: Expressionism, Abstraction
- Common media: Painting

## About Juan Barjola

Juan Barjola (1919–2004) was a Spanish painter whose identity and life years are consistently represented in Wikidata, VIAF, and other international authority systems. Secondary biographical sources describe his work as moving between abstraction and a distinctive form of representational expressionism. That combination places emphasis on expressive distortion and painterly interpretation rather than straightforward naturalistic description, although the collected institutional sources do not provide enough detail to assign a narrower school or formal affiliation. Collectors may encounter Barjola through paintings listed in public auction records and through catalogues indexed under several linked library and art-authority identifiers. Those identifiers are especially useful for distinguishing the artist from similarly named people and for consolidating records that use shortened or expanded forms of his name. Specific subjects, techniques, supports, and periods should still be verified against the catalogue entry and physical work under review.

## Common works and media

Paintings are the only work type established with high confidence by the collected authority records. Secondary sources associate Barjola's painting with both abstraction and representational expressionism. The source pack does not establish particular supports, techniques, recurring subjects, print editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, or posters, so those characteristics should be taken from individual catalogue records and examination of the object rather than generalized across his work.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence supports paintings as the principal auction category associated with Juan Barjola, but it does not provide enough lot-level detail to characterize particular techniques, sizes, subjects, or market segments. An appraisal should first confirm that the attribution corresponds to the artist represented by the linked Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and library authority records. Relevant public auction results can then be compared on a like-for-like basis, recording the work type, catalogue description, sale date, realized price, and other disclosed lot information when available. Because this source pack contains no individual results, condition reports, provenance histories, or edition data, it does not support a price trend or valuation prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q736886
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/74658382/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500035303
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81127386
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Barjola
- Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Barjola
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Barjola
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/juan-barjola/