# Martha Boto artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/martha-boto/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:30:08.295Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1925-12-27
- Death date: 2004-10-13
- Nationality: Argentine
- Movements: Kinetic art, Programmed art, Argentine non-figurative art
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture

## Portrait

![Martha Boto](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Martha_Boto_%281995%29.png)
Pantalaskas · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martha_Boto_(1995).png

## About Martha Boto

Martha Boto (1925–2004) was an Argentine painter and sculptor born in Buenos Aires and later active in France. She is associated with kinetic and programmed art, approaches that made movement, changing visual effects, and systematic organization central to the experience of an artwork. Biographical sources also identify her as a co-founder of the Group of Non-Figurative Artists of Argentina, connecting her practice to the development of Argentine abstraction before her work became established in a broader European context. Boto is consequently encountered both as an Argentine non-figurative artist and as a participant in the international history of kinetic art. Collectors may find her name attached to paintings, sculpture, and works categorized as kinetic or programmed art. These categories should not be treated as interchangeable: each object needs to be identified through its particular medium, date, and relationship to the documented directions of her practice.

## Common works and media

Authority and biographical sources identify Boto as both a painter and sculptor and associate her with kinetic and programmed art. Auction and appraisal contexts may therefore include paintings, sculptures, and kinetic or programmed objects rather than a single uniform work type. The collected source pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, specific materials, or edition practices, so those characteristics should be documented from the individual object rather than generalized.

## Market and appraisal context

Market review for Martha Boto should begin by identifying whether an object is a painting, sculpture, or kinetic or programmed work, since these represent different parts of her documented practice. Its date can then be considered against her Argentine non-figurative background and kinetic-art context. Appraisily's artist directory reports 297 auction entries, but an aggregate count does not establish the comparability, condition, or relevance of any individual lot. A defensible appraisal should therefore use public auction results only after matching the offered work as closely as the available evidence permits by category, medium, and date. The collected sources do not support a price trend or prediction.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3295144
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/245215394/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500330584
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Boto
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Boto
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Boto
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/martha-boto/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martha_Boto_(1995).png