# Paul Horiuchi artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-horiuchi/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:12:05.541Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Collage, Torn-paper collage, Murals

## About Paul Horiuchi

Paul Horiuchi (1906–1999) was an American artist identified by international authority records as a Japanese-American painter, collagist, and muralist. A general biographical account describes his move to Seattle in 1946 and a mature practice that shifted from painting toward collage. His most specifically documented technique is torn-paper collage, which a second biographical source dates to the late 1950s. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on both paintings and paper-based compositions, while authority data also records his work as a muralist. Horiuchi is often discussed in connection with the Northwest School, although the present source pack supports that association only through a general biographical source rather than a museum or scholarly record. His stable identifiers across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, Library of Congress, IdRef, RKD, and BnF help distinguish his work and records from those of similarly named artists.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify Horiuchi with painting, collage, and mural work. Their most specific medium description is torn-paper collage, developed in the late 1950s after an earlier emphasis on painting. The pack does not provide reliable evidence for recurring subjects, named series, edition practices, print categories, sculpture, or ceramics, so those categories should not be assigned without examining the individual object and stronger documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first distinguish a painting from a torn-paper collage and compare the object with records for the same type of work. The collected Appraisily input indicates that auction records are associated with Horiuchi, but this source pack does not contain fetched lot descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance histories, or major-auction-house commentary. It therefore cannot substantiate a price trend or prediction. A defensible market analysis should use documented comparable lots, checking the stated medium, attribution, sale date, and available object details before treating any result as relevant to the work being appraised.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15434966
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500125514
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/14227431/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/145612929
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Horiuchi
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Horiuchi
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-horiuchi/