# Matt Rinard artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/matt-rinard/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:24:25.768Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American

## Portrait

![Matt Rinard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Matt-Rinard-American-Artist.jpg/1280px-Matt-Rinard-American-Artist.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matt-Rinard-American-Artist.jpg

## About Matt Rinard

Matt Rinard is an American artist publicly associated with New Orleans, Louisiana. The available source pack provides a clear basic identity but only limited art-historical detail: Wikidata identifies Rinard as an American artist, and Wikipedia independently describes him as an American-born artist living in New Orleans. No museum, university, official artist site, estate, catalogue raisonné, or scholarly biography was collected, so a specific movement, school, chronology, or body of subjects should not be assigned from this evidence. Collectors may encounter Rinard through public auction listings and secondary-market records indexed under his name. Those records can help organize comparable sales, but they do not by themselves establish authorship, a complete career history, or the characteristics of every work. Future enrichment should prioritize a first-party biography and institutional collection or exhibition records before expanding the page's biographical and art-historical claims.

## Common works and media

The auction index groups matched Matt Rinard records across fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Because the source pack does not provide an official catalogue or institutional overview, these are auction-record categories, not a definitive statement of the artist's established media or complete body of work. Examine the object itself for medium, technique, dimensions, signature, inscriptions, edition number, date, and condition before selecting comparables.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's collected market snapshot reports 26 matched auction records, including 16 priced records, with observed results from $20 to $416; the underlying page says its insight was updated February 18, 2026. Treat these figures as a bounded record set, not a prediction or comprehensive price guide. For appraisal, compare works by medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition details, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, subject matter, attribution confidence, and recent like-for-like public sales. Reported prices may not be directly comparable when buyer's premiums or fees are handled differently. Private sales, incomplete feeds, name matching, and later attribution changes may also affect the apparent market.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Coverage may be incomplete, so each object still requires independent examination and attribution review.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6789243
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Rinard
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/matt-rinard/