Why Arnaldo Curia Santos matters
Arnaldo Curia Santos is a Spanish painter, born in Madrid in 1929, whose work is documented mainly through secondary auction market listings rather than through museum, gallery, or critical recognition. He is not established in the sources reviewed as a figure of major institutional significance, but he is a real, identifiable artist with a documented, if thin and inconsistently recorded, market history.
- Nationality
- Spanish
- Media
- Painting
- Signature motifs
- Mediterranean landscapes, Still lifes
Selected works
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Biography
Arnaldo Curia Santos is consistently identified across multiple auction house and market database sources as a Spanish painter born in Madrid in 1929, working primarily in oil on canvas, with recurring subjects including Mediterranean landscapes and still lifes. No exact birth date, and no confirmed death date, appears in any source reviewed. As of July 2026, no obituary, gallery statement, or press report could be found confirming whether he is living or deceased, so his current status is unconfirmed rather than presumed either way. No formal art education, current gallery representation, museum collection holding, or award could be documented for him in the sources checked.
A separate person, Arnaldo Santos (full name Arnaldo dos Santos Andrade), a Brazilian radio broadcaster and sports commentator, died in Manaus, Brazil, on January 6, 2025, at age 86, according to Brazilian press including G1 and Globo Esporte. He is documented as a media figure, not a visual artist, and this profile does not treat him as the same person as Arnaldo Curia Santos absent evidence connecting the two identities.
Critical reception
No published exhibition reviews, catalog essays, or named critical commentary could be located for this artist as of the data collection date.
Market
Curia Santos's market presence consists of scattered listings at regional and secondary auction venues, including Ansorena in Madrid, LiveAuctioneers, and EBTH, several of which show no realized price or a "not sold" result. The most fully documented sale found is Landscape with Olive Tree, cited by MutualArt as realizing USD 292 at Mainichi Auction in Tokyo in 2015; the exact day and month of that sale are not stated in the source. MutualArt separately references realized prices "of up to USD 2,800" for the artist without naming the specific work, house, or date, so that higher figure cannot be verified against any individual sale and should be treated with caution.
Top auction results
| Work | Price | Sale |
|---|---|---|
| Landscape with Olive Tree (2015) | USD 292 | Mainichi Auction, Tokyo |
What collectors should know
This is a thinly documented, low-visibility market with inconsistent figures across the few sources that reference it. Collectors encountering the name Arnaldo Curia Santos in connection with a specific work should independently verify the artist's identity, provenance, and any market claims directly with the seller, auction house, or a qualified appraiser before relying on this page.
Data current as of 2026-07-15.
