Bernard Maurice Quentin Auction Prices and Value Guide
Bernard Maurice Quentin auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 358 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Bernard Maurice Quentin auction prices: quick answer
Bernard Maurice Quentin auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Bernard Maurice Quentin
- Source records
- 358
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Bernard Maurice Quentin market snapshot
Bernard Maurice Quentin shows deep auction liquidity with 276 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (63.4% · 97 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (36.6% · 56 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $500
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 4
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-10
Artist context
About Bernard Maurice Quentin
Bernard Maurice Quentin (1923–2020) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker who trained in Paris at the École des Arts Décoratifs and the École des Beaux-Arts from roughly 1940 to 1947. Active across painting, sculpture, lithography, watercolor, gouache, illustration, and stage design, Quentin worked in a variety of media throughout a career spanning several decades of post-war and contemporary European art. He is recorded in the Bénézit Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, and Vollmer's Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. His work is represented in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he is catalogued by the Getty Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, and the RKD in The Hague.
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Common works and media
Quentin's auction and appraisal profile most commonly includes oil paintings, gouaches, watercolors, lithographs, and drawings. He also produced sculptural works and stage-design elements. Prints and works on paper are likely to appear more frequently in the secondary market than unique paintings or sculptures. Subjects and stylistic orientation are not clearly documented in the available authority records, so each work should be assessed individually for medium, date, and condition.
Market and appraisal context
Quentin's work appears at auction primarily as paintings, works on paper (watercolors, gouaches, drawings), lithographic prints, and occasionally sculpture. Because he worked across many media and is listed in standard artist dictionaries and institutional collections, appraisal value depends on factors such as the specific medium, date, provenance, condition, and whether the work can be firmly attributed to his hand. Collectors encountering Quentin pieces at auction or in estate contexts should compare lots against documented media and period, verify signatures and edition numbers for prints, and review provenance records carefully.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Appraisal caveats
- No specific auction records or realized prices are present in the source pack; common auction categories are inferred from the artist's known media and post-war French context.
- One VIAF contributor describes Quentin as 'French or Belgian'; the dominant attribution is French, but collectors should verify provenance for borderline cases.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
- RKD library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
Data basis
This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Bernard Maurice Quentin worth?
Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.
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Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.