# Marisol artist context and auction value notes Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/marisol/ Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:13:16.090Z Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources ## Artist identity - Nationality: Venezuelan-American - Common media: Sculpture, Terracotta sculpture, Bronze sculpture, Wood relief, Plaster casting, Wooden sculptural assemblage ## Portrait ![Marisol](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Marisol_Escobar_NYWTS.jpg/1280px-Marisol_Escobar_NYWTS.jpg) New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Hiller, Herman, photographer. · Public domain Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marisol_Escobar_NYWTS.jpg ## About Marisol Marisol (Maria Sol Escobar; 1930–2016) was a Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris to Venezuelan parents. After spending time in Los Angeles and Paris, she moved to New York City in 1950 and studied with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Hans Hofmann, and William King. Her early practice included terracotta and bronze sculpture, wood reliefs, and plaster casts, often organized around abstract human figures. MoMA connects this formative work with her encounters with pre-Columbian sculpture and western Mexican ceramic traditions. Marisol later became especially recognized for wooden sculptures and assemblages, sometimes incorporating self-referential portrait imagery. These works brought her broad attention during the mid-1960s and placed her within the cultural setting of postwar New York art. Collectors may therefore encounter her name across several sculptural formats rather than through a single material or technique. Authority records and museum collections identify Marisol consistently, although the collected institutional excerpts do not establish one definitive movement label. ## Common works and media Works associated with Marisol include freestanding sculpture, wooden sculptural assemblages, wood reliefs, terracotta and bronze figures, and plaster castings. Early examples may feature abstract human forms, while later wooden constructions can present people, animals, or self-referential portrait imagery. Materials, construction, date, dimensions, and the distinction between a unique object and any editioned work should be recorded carefully before auction comparisons are chosen. ## Market and appraisal context Marisol’s market requires comparison among materially and chronologically related works. A terracotta or bronze sculpture, wood relief, plaster casting, and constructed wooden assemblage should not be treated as interchangeable merely because each is attributed to the artist. The work’s date, construction, dimensions, subject, and relationship to her early abstract figures or later characteristic assemblages can guide the selection of relevant comparables. Self-referential imagery may also help situate an object within her documented practice. Condition, provenance, attribution, and any edition information still require object-level verification. The collected source pack confirms an auction-record signal but supplies no major-auction-house analysis or realized-price dataset, so it does not support a price forecast, scarcity statement, or market-trend claim. ## Appraisily data basis Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available and sufficiently documented. ## Sources - The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/3774 - Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438248 - Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027334 - VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/810752/ - IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/155714317 - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisol_Escobar - Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisol_Escobar - Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/marisol/