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Frank-Will (1900–1950), born Frank William Boggs in Nanterre, was a French painter and watercolourist, and the son of the painter Frank Boggs. He abandoned architectural studies to pursue painting and focused particularly on watercolour from 1916. After using several different signatures, he worked under the name Frank-Will. A friend of Gen Paul and Marcel Leprin, he belonged to Montmartre’s artistic community. Paris was a central subject: its streets, quays and monuments supplied motifs for his compositions, some of which were reproduced as postcards by the publishers Barré et Dayez after 1925. Visits to Normandy in 1922, La Rochelle in 1926 and Barfleur in 1930 broadened his repertoire to include harbours and coastlines. Tall ships and galleons became recurring subjects, sometimes appearing in imaginary naval battles. He died in Clichy in 1950, aged fifty.
This profile brings together identity references for Frank-Will and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Piguet
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Watercolour
Vue du Sacré-Cœur depuis la place du Tertre
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2026-09-08 — 2026-09-23
Published result : 420 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600–800
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Watercolour
Trois-mâts à quai
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2026-09-08 — 2026-09-23
Published result : 300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600–800
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Watercolour
Pariser Seineansicht.
Aquarell
Catalogue period : 2017-11-11
Published result : 150 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 500
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Hafen von Fécamp.
Aquarell
Catalogue period : 2013-11-08
Published result : 1300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1800
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Watercolour
Pariser Quai mit Notre-Dame.
Aquarell
Catalogue period : 2013-11-08
Published result : 700 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000
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Watercolour
"Avallon".
Aquarell
Catalogue period : 2013-11-08
Published result : 1100 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1200
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Sommerliche Hafenansicht mit Schiffen.
Öl auf Lwd.
Date to be documented
Published result : 2200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2700
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Oil on canvas
Der Hafen von Isigny-sur-Mer.
Öl auf Lwd.
Date to be documented
Published result : 3400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Watercolour
Seinepartie mit Notre-Dame in Paris.
Aquarell
Date to be documented
Published result : 600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800
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Watercolour
Blick auf die Kathedrale von Chartres.
Aquarell
Date to be documented
Published result : 2100 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2000
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Mixed media on paper
"Paris".
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 6200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2500
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Abendliche Flusspartie im Wald.
Öl auf Htf
Date to be documented
Published result : 400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 500
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