Antoine Blanchard Auction Prices and Value Guide

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Antoine Blanchard auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Antoine Blanchard
Source records
1,491
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Antoine Blanchard

Antoine Blanchard (1910–1988) was the pseudonym of French painter Marcel Masson, best known for his luminous depictions of Parisian street scenes. Born in a small village near the Loire, Blanchard studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and went on to produce a large body of work capturing the boulevards, monuments, and daily life of the French capital across changing seasons and times of day. His paintings reference the atmosphere of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Paris, often featuring landmarks such as the Moulin Rouge, the Arc de Triomphe, and Notre-Dame. An online catalogue raisonné maintained at antoineblanchard.org documents his paintings, drawings, and exhibition history. Blanchard's work remains widely collected, and his paintings appear regularly at auction internationally.

Parisian street scene painting (20th-century French urban genre)Oil paintingParisian street scenes and city viewsParis landmarks and monuments

Common works and media

The most commonly encountered works by Antoine Blanchard are oil paintings on canvas depicting Parisian street scenes, boulevards, and landmark views. Typical subjects include the Champs-Élysées, the Moulin Rouge, the Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde, and Notre-Dame, often rendered with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, and period atmosphere. Works range from smaller cabinet-size paintings to larger gallery-format canvases. Drawings and works on paper also appear, though less frequently at auction. Prints and reproductions exist in the market and should be distinguished from original paintings during appraisal.

Market and appraisal context

Antoine Blanchard maintains a deep and actively traded secondary market. Appraisily's auction-record index tracks 888 total lots with 689 priced results spanning 1993 to late 2025. The price distribution shows a wide but accessible market: the recorded minimum is $70 (likely a work on paper or small-format piece), the 25th percentile sits at $2,250, the median at $4,000, and the 75th percentile at $6,250. The all-time maximum of $460,000 reflects a premium, large-format, or historically significant canvas. Recent activity includes 19 lots in the trailing 12 months and 35 in the prior 12 months, indicating consistent but slightly contracting liquidity. Works are widely distributed across international and regional auction houses including Bonhams, Christie's, Heritage Auctions, Freeman's | Hindman, DuMouchelles, Dorotheum, Eldred's, and Waddington's. The most common category placement is Impressionist & Modern Art — Paintings and European Paintings — 19th/20th Century. Recent comparable lots show typical mid-range oil-on-canvas Parisian street scenes realizing between $1,000 and $7,500 USD depending on size, subject, and venue, with a Freeman's | Hindman lot of "Porte Saint Martin" achieving $7,500 in June 2025.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Impressionist & Modern Art — Paintings
  • European Paintings — 19th/20th Century
  • Oil painting

Value drivers

  1. Subject matter and specific Paris landmark depicted
  2. Size and medium (oil on canvas vs. works on paper)
  3. Authentication status through the official catalogue raisonné
  4. Provenance and exhibition history
  5. Condition and whether the work is recorded in the catalogue raisonné
  6. Subject matter and specific Paris landmark depicted (e.g., Champs-Élysées, Notre-Dame, Place de l'Opéra, Boulevard Madeleine) — iconic landmarks tend to command stronger prices

Appraisal caveats

  • Blanchard's popularity has led to many works in circulation; authentication through the official catalogue raisonné is recommended before appraisal
  • The artist painted under a pseudonym (Marcel Masson), which may complicate provenance research
  • The maximum recorded price of $460,000 is an outlier well above the 75th percentile ($6,250) and should not be used as a benchmark for typical works
  • Recent 12-month lot count (19) is notably lower than the prior 12 months (35), which may reflect market softening, seasonal variation, or simply fewer consignments — the trend should be monitored rather than assumed permanent

Evidence

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Data basis

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