# Charles Malfray artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-malfray/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:35:21.727Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1887-07-19
- Death date: 1940-05-28
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing and works on paper

## About Charles Malfray

Charles Malfray (1887–1940), born Eugène-Charles-Alexandre Malfray, was a French sculptor who is also identified as a painter. The collected authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty align on his identity and life years, while the available French biographical source places his birth in Orléans and death in Dijon. Sculpture is the most securely documented part of his practice. Publicly documented examples in the source pack also include drawings of reclining and reading female figures, a female torso dated 1928, and a 1921 studio photograph connected with a Victory Monument. These records indicate a practice extending from figure studies to monumental work, although the evidence gathered here does not justify assigning Malfray to a specific formal movement. Collectors may encounter his name across sculpture, works on paper, and paintings, but attribution and object type should be established carefully before comparing market records.

## Common works and media

Sculpture is the best-supported work type associated with Malfray. The collected material also documents paintings and works on paper, including studies of reclining or reading female figures. A photographed female torso dated 1928 represents his figurative sculpture, while the Victory Monument material records a monumental commission. These examples describe documented parts of his output but should not be treated as a complete catalogue of his work.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work associated with Charles Malfray should begin by establishing its object type and checking the attribution against his documented authority identities. Sculpture, painting, and drawing records should be assessed within their own categories rather than treated as interchangeable comparables. Relevant comparison also depends on the individual object's date, dimensions, condition, provenance, and any available edition or casting information, none of which is exposed in this source pack. Appraisily's artist page indicates an auction-record context, but the supplied evidence does not include individual sale results. Price conclusions should therefore rely on verified, closely comparable lots with accessible sale dates, realized prices, descriptions, and attribution language.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959734
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/69200236/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500042940
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Malfray
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Malfray
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-malfray/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Alexandre_Malfray,_Kvindelig_model,_liggende_p%C3%A5_siden,_rygvendt,_KKShm1976-697,_Statens_Museum_for_Kunst.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Alexandre_Malfray,_Kvinde,_der_l%C3%A6ser_i_en_seng,_,_KKShm1976-699,_Statens_Museum_for_Kunst.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_malfray,_torso_femminile,_1928.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Malfray_Victory_Monument_-_1921.jpg