Malcolm de Chazal Auction Prices and Value Guide

Malcolm de Chazal auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 303 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Malcolm de Chazal auction prices: quick answer

Malcolm de Chazal auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Malcolm de Chazal
Source records
303
Market update
2026-02-06

Malcolm de Chazal market snapshot

Malcolm de Chazal shows solid auction liquidity with 55 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,955. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-05-02.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (27.7% · 13 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (70.2% · 33 sales)
  • $10,000+ (2.1% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$2,200
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
4
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-05-02

Artist context

About Malcolm de Chazal

Born

1902

Died

1981

Nationality

Mauritian

Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) was a Mauritian writer, poet, and painter. Public authority data identifies him as a Mauritian writer, while biographical entries also document his activity as a poet and visual artist. He was born in Vacoas and died in Curepipe. De Chazal is especially associated with Sens-Plastique, an extensive literary work composed of aphoristic observations and reflections. That literary reputation provides important context for his visual practice, although the collected sources do not establish a formal movement, school, recurring subject, preferred technique, or reliable chronology for his paintings. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with both written works and paintings. Because the available evidence emphasizes authority records and concise biography rather than museum catalogues or detailed auction-house scholarship, individual objects should be assessed from their direct documentation rather than from broad assumptions about style or period.

Painting

Common works and media

Paintings are the only visual-art category directly supported by the collected biographies, which identify de Chazal as a painter as well as a writer and poet. The evidence does not establish recurring subjects, techniques, supports, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, or posters, so those categories should not be generalized without additional catalogue or auction-lot research.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisily has an auction-record signal for Malcolm de Chazal, but the collected material contains no lot-level descriptions and no substantive commentary from a major auction house. It therefore does not support a price trend, typical value range, scarcity claim, or conclusion about which works perform more strongly. An appraisal should rely on the individual object's documented attribution and genuinely comparable public sales. The present research cannot determine how medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, date, subject, or attribution wording affected sale results because the necessary cataloguing and realized-price evidence was not included in the source pack.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Comparable public auction records associated with the artist

Appraisal caveats

  • Do not infer a price trend, typical value range, or scarcity from an auction-record count alone.
  • Require lot-level cataloguing, attribution wording, and realized-price evidence before treating a sale as a meaningful comparable.
  • The collected evidence does not support claims about which media, subjects, periods, or work types achieve stronger market results.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

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.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Malcolm de Chazal

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Malcolm de Chazal 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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