Maurice Busset Auction Prices and Value Guide

Maurice Busset auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 183 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Maurice Busset auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Maurice Busset
Source records
183
Market update
2026-02-06

Maurice Busset market snapshot

Maurice Busset shows developing auction liquidity with 42 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-25.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (20.0% · 2 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (80.0% · 8 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,200
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
8
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-25

Artist context

About Maurice Busset

Maurice Busset portrait
Maurice Busset · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Born

1879

Died

1936

Nationality

French

Maurice Busset (1879–1936) was a French painter, woodcutter, wood engraver, and illustrator associated especially with Clermont-Ferrand and the Auvergne region. During the First World War, he served as an airman and worked as an official military or war artist. Aviation consequently became an important part of his documented subject matter, alongside views and themes connected with his native Auvergne. Collectors may encounter Busset through paintings as well as graphic work, particularly woodcuts and wood engravings, with illustrations forming another part of his practice. These different formats matter when identifying and comparing an object attributed to him. The available source pack does not establish a specific artistic movement or school for Busset, so his work is better described through its media, regional connections, and wartime aviation context. His combination of printmaking, painting, illustration, and historically specific subject matter gives his work several distinct points of entry for collectors and researchers.

PaintingWoodcutWood engravingIllustrationFirst World War aviationAuvergne

Common works and media

Works encountered under Maurice Busset's name may include paintings, woodcuts, wood engravings, and illustrations. Documented subjects include First World War aviation and the landscape or regional character of Auvergne. The source pack does not establish a complete catalogue of his output or provide a medium-by-medium auction breakdown.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Maurice Busset should begin by identifying its object type and technique: a painting, woodcut, wood engraving, and illustration are not directly interchangeable market categories. Subject context can also guide comparison, particularly for First World War aviation imagery and works connected with Auvergne. Relevant public auction records should be compared within the same medium and, where possible, a closely related subject and period. The collected source pack confirms an Appraisily auction-record presence but does not provide lot-level results or enough detail to support a price prediction. Any valuation therefore requires examination of the specific object and a review of genuinely comparable sales rather than reliance on the artist name alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Woodcuts and wood engravings
  • Illustrations and related graphic works

Value drivers

  1. Work type and technique, particularly the distinction between a painting, woodcut, wood engraving, or illustration
  2. Subject context, including First World War aviation or the Auvergne region
  3. Whether available public auction records provide genuinely comparable works in the same medium and subject area

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack provides an aggregate Appraisily auction-record signal but no lot-level descriptions, estimates, realized prices, dimensions, conditions, provenance, or edition details.
  • No movement or school affiliation was established by the retrieved source text, so none is assigned.
  • Auction categories are inferred cautiously from documented occupations and media rather than from a supplied category-level sales breakdown.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate 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 Maurice Busset

LLM summary index · LLM full index

Artist value FAQ

How much is Maurice Busset 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.

Can Appraisily value my Maurice Busset artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.