# Malcolm de Chazal artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:06:56.973Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1902-09-12
- Death date: 1981-10-01
- Nationality: Mauritian
- Common media: Painting

## About Malcolm de Chazal

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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q549230
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_de_Chazal
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_de_Chazal
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500064369
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/109991137/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79138596
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb118964661
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/malcolm-de-chazal/