# Lucio Muñoz artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:19:44.770Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish
- Movements: Abstract art
- Common media: Painting, Engraving, Works on wood

## Portrait

![Lucio Muñoz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Lucio_Mu%C3%B1oz_en_su_estudio.jpg)
Lettelier · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucio_Mu%C3%B1oz_en_su_estudio.jpg

## About Lucio Muñoz

Lucio Muñoz (1929–1998) was a Spanish painter and engraver associated with abstract art. He is particularly recognized for works in which wood serves as more than a passive support, contributing material texture and structure to the composition. The collected sources also describe a growing engagement with ordinary and figurative subjects during the mid-1960s, including portraits, animals, objects, and human figures. His practice therefore spans both abstraction and imagery drawn from recognizable experience. Library records document exhibition catalogues devoted to his work, including a 1988 presentation at Madrid’s Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and later publications focused on his use of wood. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, materially worked wooden surfaces, engravings, and related graphic works. Distinguishing among these formats is important because each belongs to a different production and comparison context. Muñoz’s presence in authority files, museum indexes, exhibition catalogues, and auction records provides a stable basis for matching works and researching his career.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Lucio Muñoz include abstract paintings, compositions made on or through wood, engravings, and other graphic works. Sources also indicate that recognizable subjects entered parts of his practice, including portraits, animals, ordinary objects, and human figures. For appraisal purposes, a wooden work should not automatically be classified as a conventional painting, and an engraving should be assessed separately from a unique painted or materially constructed work. Signatures, inscriptions, edition markings, labels, and the exact support should be recorded from the object itself.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins by identifying whether a work is a painting, a materially worked composition on wood, an engraving, or another graphic work. These formats should be compared with genuinely similar examples rather than treated as one market category. Relevant research should examine the stated materials and support, dimensions, date, authorship evidence, condition, provenance, and, for graphic works, any edition information visible on the object or accompanying documentation. Public auction records can then help establish a comparison set by work type and sale date. The collected source pack does not include fetched major-auction-house lot pages or enough sale-level evidence to support price predictions, scarcity claims, or a market-trend conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Source coverage varies, so object-specific conclusions require verification against the work and the strongest available records.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168080
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/067196918
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Mu%C3%B1oz
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Mu%C3%B1oz
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lucio-munoz/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucio_Mu%C3%B1oz_en_su_estudio.jpg