# Jean Jules-Louis Cavailles artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-02T11:23:30.000Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1901-06-20
- Death date: 1977-01-29
- Nationality: French
- Common media: oil painting, pastel, watercolor, gouache, drawing

## About Jean Jules-Louis Cavailles

Jean Jules-Louis Cavaillès (1901–1977) was a French painter, pastelist, watercolorist, and draftsman active across nearly five decades. Born in Carmaux in the Tarn department, he trained from 1925 and by 1922 had established himself in Paris, living and working at La Ruche, the celebrated Montparnasse artist community. In 1945 he briefly served as conservator of the Musées des Augustins in Toulouse. He later divided his time between a home in Epigneuil in Burgundy and a second residence in Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. Cavaillès is recorded in major library authority files including the Library of Congress Name Authority File, VIAF, the RKD, and Getty's Union List of Artist Names, confirming his recognized standing among twentieth-century French painters.

## Common works and media

Collectors most frequently encounter Cavaillès's oil-on-canvas paintings, along with gouaches, pastels, watercolors, and drawings. His subject matter spans still lifes, landscapes, and figurative compositions. Works range from small-format works on paper to larger canvases. Signed pieces with clear provenance from his Paris or Cagnes-sur-Mer periods are commonly seen at auction.

## Market and appraisal context

Jean Jules Louis Cavaillès has a documented auction footprint of 101 lots spanning nearly two decades (2006–2025), with 45 carrying realized prices. The market is anchored by major international houses — Christie's, Bonhams, and Heritage Auctions — alongside prominent French and Swiss regional houses such as Aguttes, Artcurial, Eric Pillon Enchères, Piguet Hôtel des Ventes, and Ader. Recorded prices range from approximately €80 to €12,500, with a median near €1,500 and an interquartile spread of roughly €700–€4,200. The strongest results cluster around large-format oil-on-canvas paintings of southern French subjects: a view of the port of Cannes realized £12,000 at Bonhams (2025), a Saint-Tropez landscape reached €12,500 at Millon Riviera (2018), and a porte-fenêtre at Albi sold for £12,500 at Christie's (2017). Floral still lifes also perform well, with a Corbeille de fleurs achieving €10,500 at Aguttes (2022). Works on paper — gouaches, pastels, watercolors, and charcoal drawings — generally trade below €2,500. Market velocity is thin: only one priced lot appeared in the most recent 12-month window, and none in the prior 12 months, indicating a low-liquidity market where appraisal comparables require careful time-adjustment and cross-referencing across houses.

## Auction-house-backed market evidence

Jean Jules Louis Cavaillès has a documented auction footprint of 101 lots spanning nearly two decades (2006–2025), with 45 carrying realized prices. The market is anchored by major international houses — Christie's, Bonhams, and Heritage Auctions — alongside prominent French and Swiss regional houses such as Aguttes, Artcurial, Eric Pillon Enchères, Piguet Hôtel des Ventes, and Ader. Recorded prices range from approximately €80 to €12,500, with a median near €1,500 and an interquartile spread of roughly €700–€4,200. The strongest results cluster around large-format oil-on-canvas paintings of southern French subjects: a view of the port of Cannes realized £12,000 at Bonhams (2025), a Saint-Tropez landscape reached €12,500 at Millon Riviera (2018), and a porte-fenêtre at Albi sold for £12,500 at Christie's (2017). Floral still lifes also perform well, with a Corbeille de fleurs achieving €10,500 at Aguttes (2022). Works on paper — gouaches, pastels, watercolors, and charcoal drawings — generally trade below €2,500. Market velocity is thin: only one priced lot appeared in the most recent 12-month window, and none in the prior 12 months, indicating a low-liquidity market where appraisal comparables require careful time-adjustment and cross-referencing across houses.

### Appraisal notes

An Appraisily appraisal for a Cavaillès work uses these 101 auction records as a comparable-sales foundation, filtered by medium (oil, gouache, pastel, watercolor, drawing), dimensions, subject matter, and date of execution. The appraiser photographs the work front and back, documents the signature and any verso inscriptions (countersignatures, titles, gallery labels), records exact dimensions, notes condition issues (craquelure, relining, inpainting, foxing for works on paper), and establishes provenance. Comparables are selected from lots in the same medium and approximate size tier, with adjustments for condition, provenance strength, market timing, and currency. Given the wide price dispersion (€80–€12,500) and thin recent velocity, the appraiser emphasizes lots closest in medium, size, subject, and date to the subject work and applies time-adjustment factors for older comparable sales. Results at Christie's and Bonhams provide the most reliable high-end comparables; results at regional houses provide mid-market and entry-level benchmarks.

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### Collector notes

- Cavaillès's market is bifurcated: large oil canvases of Mediterranean subjects and floral still lifes consistently attract four- and five-figure results at international houses, while smaller works on paper trade at modest three-figure levels at regional salerooms. Given thin auction velocity (one priced lot in the 24 months ending October 2025), sellers should allow longer marketing periods and consider consignment to houses with established French 20th-century painting departments such as Christie's, Bonhams, or Aguttes. Buyers may find value at regional French auctions where cataloguing can be less detailed — but should verify attribution carefully, as the artist's name variants (Jules Cavaillès, Jean Cavaillès, Cavaillès) may cause records to be fragmented across catalogues. Works bearing countersignatures and verso inscriptions provide stronger attribution documentation. The southern French landscape and floral still life categories appear to hold value best across market cycles.

### Market caveats

- Auction prices span multiple currencies (EUR, GBP, CHF, USD) and nearly two decades; direct price comparisons require currency and time adjustments.
- Only 45 of 101 recorded lots carry realized prices; unsold or price-not-disclosed lots are excluded from the price distribution and may skew the observed range upward.
- Market velocity is very thin: one priced lot in the most recent 12 months and zero in the prior 12 months. Appraisal comparables drawn from 2017–2022 sales may require significant time adjustments.
- The artist's multiple name forms (Jules Cavaillès, Jean Cavaillès, Jean Jules-Louis Cavailles, Cavaillès) may cause some auction records to appear under variant spellings that are not fully consolidated in the dataset.
- Specific movement affiliations (Post-Impressionism, Realism, École de Paris) are not well documented in available authority sources; auction house cataloguing may assign different stylistic labels.
- Some lots in the record have limited cataloguing detail (untitled works, no medium specified), which reduces their reliability as comparables.
- The max price of €12,500 represents a small number of outlier lots; the median and interquartile range are more representative of typical market levels.

### Market evidence sources

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## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research grounded in library authority records and institutional sources with auction records, auction-house cataloguing context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3188477
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007122058
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/54156312/
- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/16014
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Cavaill%C3%A8s
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500102584