# Henry Malfroy artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:08:27.353Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Oil on canvas

## About Henry Malfroy

Henry Malfroy (1895–1945), also recorded as Charles Henri Malfroy, was a French painter. A public biographical record notes that his painting was entered in the art competition associated with the 1928 Summer Olympics. The collected image record shows an emphasis on place: views connected with Martigues and the Plage du Ranquet, a Paris scene at the Place de la Madeleine, and a Venetian view toward San Giorgio Maggiore. These examples place Malfroy within the market for early twentieth-century French painting, especially landscape, coastal, harbor, and city subjects, although the available sources do not provide an institution-grade movement classification. Collectors may encounter his name as Henry or Henri Malfroy in auction data. Appraisily's matched records span paintings and other broad fine-art categories, making exact identification, medium, date, subject, signature, condition, and provenance important when comparing a work with public sales.

## Common works and media

The collected visual evidence documents paintings of coastal, harbor, and urban settings, including Martigues, the Plage du Ranquet, Paris's Place de la Madeleine, and Venice. One documented example is identified as oil on canvas. Appraisily's auction index also places matched records in broader categories such as works on paper, prints, mixed media, and editions, but those classifications should be checked against each lot because the source pack does not establish that every category represents a characteristic part of Malfroy's practice.

## Market and appraisal context

Henry Malfroy auction results should be compared with works that are genuinely similar in medium, size, subject, date, condition, and attribution. A signed coastal oil painting, for example, should not automatically be measured against a work on paper or a broadly attributed object. Provenance, restoration, inscriptions, exhibition history, and catalogue references may also affect how buyers assess a lot. Public results can help establish a range of comparable evidence, but they do not capture every private sale or later change in attribution. Reported prices may also include fees on different terms. A defensible appraisal should therefore examine the underlying lot descriptions and sale dates rather than relying on a single median or headline result.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52148673
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/52160
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Malfroy
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henry-malfroy/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Malfroy_-_Motif_of_Martigues.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Malfroy_-_Place_de_la_Madeleine,_Paris.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Malfroy_Plage_du_Ranquet.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Malfroy_-_Venice,_a_View_to_San_Giorgio_Maggiore.jpg