# Maurice Lévis artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:25:26.832Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1860-11-11
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor, Oil on canvas or board

## About Maurice Lévis

Maurice Lévis, also indexed without the accent as Maurice Levis, was a French painter and watercolorist born in Paris in 1860. Collection and authority records generally place his death in 1940, although one biographical source gives 31 January 1941. His securely documented public-collection profile is centered on landscape. Art UK records scenes titled A Farmyard, Granville, A Canal in Belgium, Les vieux ramparts, The Old Ramparts, Mailly-le-Château, On the River Yonne, At Boutigny, and La frette. Together, these works show a recurring interest in rivers, canals, farms, old fortifications, and named French or Belgian locations. Collectors commonly encounter Lévis through landscape paintings and watercolors, often identified by place-specific titles. Records from Getty ULAN, BnF, the British Museum, Wikidata, RKD, VIAF, and IdRef provide identity anchors for matching accented and unaccented name forms. No formal movement is assigned because the institution-grade material in this source pack does not establish one.

## Common works and media

Commonly documented works are landscapes: river and canal views, farmyards, named localities, old ramparts, and waterside scenes in France or Belgium. Painting and watercolor are supported as core media. Collected lot descriptions additionally identify oils on canvas and board. Signatures, dimensions, support, condition, and location-specific titles should be checked against the original work and auction catalogue during appraisal.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work belongs to Maurice Lévis rather than a similarly named artist, using signatures, inscriptions, labels, and stable authority identifiers. Work type and medium matter: the source pack documents painting and watercolor, while collected lot metadata describes oil on board and oil on canvas. Subject, named location, dimensions, support, date, condition, restoration, and provenance can affect comparability. Public auction records should then be matched by medium, subject, size, attribution, condition, and sale timing. The collected material confirms an auction-record presence but does not provide accessible realized-price lines, so it cannot support a price range, market-trend claim, or forecast on its own.

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## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/levis-maurice-18601940
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG34396
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500079005
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16301211z
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21458228
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_L%C3%A9vis
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/49766
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/maurice-levis/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maurice_Levis_-_cab4776bb3.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maurice_Levis_-_0734f74bc6.jpg