# Maurice Chabas artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:58:43.930Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1862-09-21
- Death date: 1947-12-10
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Symbolism
- Common media: Painting

## About Maurice Chabas

Maurice Chabas (1862–1947) was a French painter associated with Symbolism. Authority records from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and IdRef distinguish him as a specific historical artist, while the collected French biography supplies the fuller dates 21 September 1862 and 10 December 1947. Reproductions gathered with the source pack include works titled Néméa, L’Apparition, Return to Cythera, Two Women in a Park, and Sérénité. These examples indicate a practice centered on painting, with figurative, mythological, allegorical, and contemplative imagery appearing among the documented titles. They are examples rather than a catalogue raisonné and should not be read as a complete account of his production. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Chabas in public auction records. Linking those records to stable authority identifiers helps distinguish the artist entity and provides a sounder starting point for researching authorship, context, and comparable works.

## Common works and media

The source pack identifies Chabas primarily as a painter. Collected reproductions document figurative compositions and titles with mythological, visionary, park, and contemplative themes, including Néméa, L’Apparition, Return to Cythera, Two Women in a Park, and Sérénité. The evidence supplied here is not sufficient to characterize editions, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or distinct chronological series as common parts of his auction market.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected material supports treating paintings as the principal auction category associated with Maurice Chabas, but it does not establish price trends or artist-specific premiums. An appraisal should first test the attribution and identify the work’s medium, support, dimensions, likely date, subject, signature or inscriptions, condition, and documented provenance. Comparable public auction records are most useful when they match those characteristics and clearly describe the attribution status and sale date. A result for a differently sized, dated, conditioned, or catalogued work may offer limited guidance. Realized prices should also be read in their original sale context and should not be converted into a value prediction without examining the object itself.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2367230
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/110471458
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500014423
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/19670266/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Chabas
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Chabas
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Chabas
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/maurice-chabas/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maurice_Chabas_-_N%C3%A9m%C3%A9a_1894.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maurice_Chabas_-_L%27Apparition.jpg