# Maurice Busset artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:33:33.039Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1879-12-06
- Death date: 1936-04-30
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Woodcut, Wood engraving, Illustration

## Portrait

![Maurice Busset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Autoportrait_de_Maurice_Busset_-_A_35349_0006_%28FR631136102%29.jpg/1280px-Autoportrait_de_Maurice_Busset_-_A_35349_0006_%28FR631136102%29.jpg)
Maurice Busset · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autoportrait_de_Maurice_Busset_-_A_35349_0006_(FR631136102).jpg

## About Maurice Busset

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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Maurice Busset, the present identity evidence is stronger than the supplied lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28219243
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Busset
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Busset
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500345502
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/45212228/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002008416
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG21523
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/maurice-busset/