# Taro Yamamoto artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/taro-yamamoto/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:40:46.607Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American

## About Taro Yamamoto

Taro Yamamoto (1919–1994) was an American artist identified in Wikidata and VIAF authority records. The collected discovery material associates him with the New York School and Abstract Expressionism, placing his work in the context of postwar American abstraction. That association remains provisional here because the source pack contains no museum, university, estate, or scholarly artist profile confirming it. Collectors may encounter the name in auction listings across paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture or mixed media, and decorative art or editions. Those categories come from matched market records rather than a verified catalogue of the artist's output, so individual lots require careful identity and attribution checks. This is especially important because Taro Yamamoto is also the name of a Japanese politician and former actor; all supplied portrait candidates depict that different person. Appraisily therefore treats authority identifiers, dates, signatures, provenance, medium, and lot-specific documentation as essential to matching works to the American artist.

## Common works and media

Matched auction records group works under paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions. The collected identity sources do not provide a verified catalogue of Yamamoto's media, subjects, named series, or edition practices. Each prospective work should therefore be evaluated from its own photographs, materials, dimensions, inscriptions, labels, provenance, and supporting documentation before it is treated as representative of the artist.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public records indicate auction activity across several broad categories, but they do not establish that every listed medium or object type is characteristic of Yamamoto's verified body of work. A useful appraisal comparison should align medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, attribution status, provenance, and any exhibition or catalogue documentation. Edition information matters for prints and multiples. Recent comparable sales should be selected for genuine similarity rather than name alone, particularly because the artist shares his name with another prominent person. Public results may omit private transactions and may report fees inconsistently, so they should inform—not determine—a final valuation.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity conflicts, incomplete feeds, private sales, and attribution changes are retained as evidence limitations.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15454463
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/85819553/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro_Yamamoto_(artist)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/taro-yamamoto/