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A beautiful painting by Armand Guillaumin, dated 1889, will be presented at auction on Thursday June 9.

Claude Lalanne's imagination was infinite. Among his jewelry or artists' objects, two belt buckles are offered for auction.

We no longer present the great sculptor Igor Mitoraj whose two bronze heads presented at auction

Did you know that the Mona Lisa traveled nearly 1100 km during the Second World War?

Often described as a Mediterranean Fauvist, Charles Camoin (1879-1965), through his ties to Paris and the bohemian Montmartre, was part of the international avant-garde. Affiliated with Fauvism, linked to Matisse, Marquet and Manguin, he never gave up his artistic independence.
The exhibition allows us to rediscover the work of the painter by integrating a hundred paintings and drawings, some of which have never been shown before. It explores various historical and thematic episodes in the artist's life and analyzes the evolution of his pictorial language, based on colored sensation.

Paul Durand-Ruel can be described as the father of the modern gallery, the one who significantly supported the first great artistic movement of the modern era, Impressionism

In 1894, the emperor built a cellar in Massandra, Crimea, to supply his summer residence in Livadia, near Yalta.

How did a man who is neither a millionaire nor a billionaire, not even an heir or the head of a large company, manage to build up an estate of more than 50,000 bottles valued by some at 50 million euros?

Brian Donelly aka KAWS was born in 1974 in New Jersey. After graduating in visual arts, he started working for Disney where he had the chance to paint the backgrounds of successful animated movies like 101 Dalmatians. This detail is important because he still has a special relationship with the company

London, March 2004. It's an unusual robbery that is taking place. In front of witnesses and in broad daylight, men driving construction equipment steal a statue of the famous artist Banksy!

And this is no small matter, since The Drinker, inspired by Rodin's The Thinker, weighs several tons. The statue is immediately hidden in a secret place...

World famous for his Pool Paintings and especially his Bigger Splash (1967), David Hockney (1937 - ) has been producing since the 1950s a sunny and hedonistic work at the crossroads of pop art and hyperrealism. The English artist draws his inspiration from Vermeer, Fra Angelico, Matisse and Picasso. Interested in all processes of image making, he does not hesitate to use technology (fax, photocopier or iPad...) and to play with perspective to renew his painting. He has also published several theoretical works, notably on the techniques of the old masters. He is one of the greatest living figurative artists.

Individuals made off with 200 shooting props, ranging from a replica Fabergé egg to gold candelabras, bringing the total value of the haul to 150,000 pounds.

Demand for vintage watches has grown exponentially in recent years, and the category is now valued at nearly €2.8 billion. Even in a global pandemic climate, buyer interest in watches has never waned: between 2019 and 2020, global searches for "vintage watches" on Barnebys more than doubled, and sessions (the period of time a user is active on a site or app) increased from 994,560 in 2019 to 1,403,060 in 2020, a 41 percent increase. So what made vintage watches so popular? Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Picasso the effervescence of forms
This is how the exhibition held at the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux is defined

The exhibition Picasso, the effervescence of forms, presented from April 15 to August 28, 2022, explores the place of wine and popular spirits in the work of Pablo Picasso, through a wide variety of themes and media (paintings, drawings, ceramics, films ...). For the occasion, the Foundation for the Culture and Civilization of Wine has invited art historian and critic Stéphane Guégan to join it as scientific curator. 

 

Three lithographs and two mixed techniques relating the subject of predilection of the artist "The carnival of Saint-Petersburg" at the auction on Thursday, April 21.

Two paintings by Max Agostini that immerse us in the flowery atmosphere of spring at auction Thursday, April 21

A beautiful set of vintage Dom Pérignon champagne bottles at auction on Thursday, April 21.

Through this catalog, let's discover masterpieces of painting and sculpture as well as some unusual objects, including a toy. It will also be an opportunity to delve into vintage, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years.
This Friday, March 18, Expertisez.com will organize a very prolific auction. Indeed, it will take place in two parts: the first part will be dedicated to paintings, sculptures and fine arts, the second part to vintage objects.
An unusual item in this sale, Resting place Companion (Black), from 2012-2013, is a toy edited to 500 pieces and sold here with its original box (as is). This toy was made by KAWS (1974), an artist who falls between the worlds of art and design. The influence of pop artists such as Andy Warhol can be seen in his many works, from paintings to sculptures to toys. KAWS masters to perfection the codes of advertising, distribution and popular culture, allowing him to create his own vocabulary that is often expressed in cartoonish humanoid characters, as is the case with this toy.

Born in Rome, Dorazio studied formally in classical painting and drawing, followed by architecture;

A set of cutlery at auction not to be missed.
A look back at an extraordinary artist.
 

Alexander Rubtzoff is also known as Aleksandr Rubcov 
Alexander Rubtzoff, born January 24, 1884 in St. Petersburg and died November 26, 1949 in Tunis, is a Russian Orientalist painter, naturalized French in 1924, having worked mainly in Tunisia.

An exclusive Hennessy cognac
Hennessy Paradis Impérial is a contemporary creation of Yann Fillioux, the seventh generation Master Blender. Released in 2011, this rare cognac is the pinnacle of the art of Hennessy selection. As an Hors d'Age Cognac, it embodies the precision with which the eaux-de-vie in this bottle were collected, with samples from the 19th and 20th centuries. With a variety of over 100 different eaux-de-vie, some dating back to 1880.

The subjects most loved by collectors remain unquestionably the felines.
 

Champagne Dom Pérignon owes its name to the famous monk and prosecutor of the Abbey of Hautvillers in 1668, Pierre Pérignon (called Dom Pérignon). According to the legend, Pierre Pérignon discovered what we call today the Champagne method. For the anecdote, he will teach this method in 1669 to the Benedictine Thierry Ruinart who will allow another famous champagne house, the House of Ruinart, to become historically the first champagne house in 1729.

On the artistic scene, Raza occupies an exceptional place; by his childhood, his first artistic training, his vast culture [...] he belongs to his country of origin. By his ties of forty years of life spent in France, he is of France, of the school known as "of Paris", which knew how to integrate artists coming from all the horizons of the planet. [...]

Another  gem from the Richard de Grab estate. An unpublished drawing by the artist René Magritte.

Find the Parisian atmosphere with this charming painting by Edouard Cortes, Paris by night, View of the Boulevard de la Madeleine

From the Richard de Grab estate, this drawing was executed during the photo shoot in Henry Moore's studio.

The Richard de Grab estate still holds many photographic and written treasures.

Two works on paper by Joan Miro, a dedication by Miro and a silver print of the artist by Richard de Grab.

A work of Man Ray at auction in 1964.

Maya Ruiz-Picasso has donated nine works by her father to the Picasso Museum in Paris. This surprise donation allows her to pay her inheritance tax in kind.

Part of the Richard de Grab estate, this drawing by Edouard Dermitt, known as Doudou. But who was he?

Avec une vente spécialisée par mois, notre maison de vente aux enchères Expertisez.com renouvelle sans cesse ses catalogues et attire les collectionneurs du monde entier. Ce mois-ci, les experts vous offrent une vente en deux temps dédiée à l'art et au vintage. On retrouve, parmi les lots phares, un important plâtre de Robert Couturier, une toile de Louis Floutier, un bronze d'Igor Mitoraj et un ensemble de clichés signés Richard de Grab. La partie maroquinerie sera ponctuée par des marques de luxe telles que Chanel, Hermès et Louis Vuitton. Ne manquez pas ce rendez-vous incontournable, le jeudi 23 septembre à 16h.

Les Arts, 1956 Original plaster from private collection Barcelona Pierre- Monogrammed and dated on the top left C56 - Bibliography : Jianou, 1969, repr.n°75 - Valérie Da Costa, catalog raisonné, Tome 2, Cat. N°06 - p.137 - History : FNAC inv 9026 - Purchased by order from the artist in 1956, intended to decorate the hall of the French Embassy in Tokyo. This set was put in place on March 24, 1956.

Who wouldn't have dreamed of working with Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Peggy Guggenheim, Otto Preminger, Igor Stravinsky...

Roberto Matta, surrealist painter who is popular
Roberto Matta Echaurren, who often liked to introduce himself as "Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren", known as Matta, was a Chilean surrealist painter, born on November 11, 1911, in Santiago de Chile, and died in Civitavecchia (Italy), on November 23, 2002.
Matta began studying architecture in Santiago de Chile. In 1933, he abandoned his career and moved to France. He first worked in the studio of Le Corbusier and then traveled to Spain, where he met the poets Rafael Alberti and Federico Garcia Lorca. He also traveled to Scandinavia, where he met Alvar Aalto, and to London, where he met Henry Moore, Roland Penrose and René Magritte.

Two individuals attempted to steal a painting by Claude Monet, which they eventually abandoned after a witness intervened.

To celebrate Picasso's 140th birthday, Sotheby's is partnering with MGM Resorts to host the largest art auction ever held in Las Vegas.

Often considered the inventor of mobile art, Alexander Calder's ingenious designs extend beyond the walls of galleries, from monumental sculptures to jewelry and custom objects. A look back at a multi-faceted and unusual artist.

Perhaps more than any other corner of the Mediterranean, the South of France has attracted the most ambitious and inventive artists of modern art, including Pablo Picasso.

Wine and art, it is a love story that lasts. Revered since time immemorial, this elixir of truth is very present in the history of art

The American flag entered the vocabulary of modern art in the mid-1950s thanks to Jasper Johns, who had dreamed of the flag after leaving the U.S. Army.

Not to be missed under any circumstances, this magnificent exhibition which gathers about fifty works of Nicolas de Staël.
A key artist of the 20th century, Nicolas de Staël experienced a period of intense pictorial research from 1945 to 1955. A decade retraced in a very beautiful exhibition at the Doyenné of Brioude.

Light and space are inseparable in the work of Zao Wou-Ki (Beijing, 1920 - Lyon, 2013) and allow us to understand his recurring objective of "giving to see" that which cannot be seen and which inhabits him: "the space within".

The Espace Paul Rebeyrolle houses a permanent collection of more than 80 works from 1948 to 2005, among the most significant of Rebeyrolle's work (1926-2005), whose figurative, Herculean and generous work, an outcry against all violence, oppression and exclusion, is to be discovered absolutely.

Camille Claudel finally has a museum!
The world's largest collection of Camille Claudel's works now has a museum. Opened on March 26, 2017, it presents 200 sculptures illustrating French sculpture in the 19th century, including 43 sculptures by Camille Claudel acquired by the City of Nogent-sur-Seine (Aube). A success.

As part of the Richard de Grab estate, this portrait of a woman dating from 1963 will be presented at auction.

As part of the Richard de Grab estate, we present three unpublished works by Juan Miro.

Numerous dedications of Salvador Dali, accompanied by drawings, photographs will be presented at auction in the context of the sale of June 9.

An exceptional Johnnie Walker bottle at auction, WHISKY JOHNNIE WALKER 1805 Celebration Blend Limited to 200 bottles from only 9 casks all aged between 45 and 70 years. Bottle in its wood and leather case accompanied by a fountain pen, the key to the box and a facsimile of the book

A beautiful set of vintage bags and accessories at auction.

A set of 2 oils on canvas and three drawings at auction Wednesday, May 5.

Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa (1854-1936) known as Antonio Fabrés, what value for his drawings or paintings, what quotation to attribute?

Wassily Kandinsky, what is his current value on the art market?
What is the estimate of your Kandinsky painting, lithograph or drawing?
Russian painter, engraver and art theorist, Wassily Kandinsky participated in 1911 in the editing of the almanac "Der Blaue Reiter" and organized its exhibition.

Henri Vever was a French jeweler, writer and collector.

Self-taught, from a modest background, his style is unlike any other.

Joseph Bernard, what quotation on the art market?
Let's take a look at the life of Joseph Bernard, who was he?

As the years go by, the surveillance of museums and galleries is more and more rigorous...and the burglaries more and more elaborate. From 1911 to 2015, a look back at ten famous thefts that have rocked the art world.

The Vietnamese painter Mai Trung Thu (November 10, 1906-October 10, 1980) has been known since the late 1950s for his representations of children, painted with gouache on silk. These works, widely distributed through reproductions, have contributed to the knowledge of traditional Vietnamese life, both in times of peace and in the turmoil of the Vietnam War. He is also a film maker and amateur photographer, and a musician who expresses this passion through all the periods of his painting.

Demeter Haralamb Chiparus
Demeter Haralamb Chiparus (1886-1947) was a sculptor of the Art Deco era. He lived and worked in Paris.

Thanks to an innate talent for communication and media coverage, Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) skilfully constructed her character as a woman painter. Fiercely fashionable in the interwar period, she integrated the codes of the emerging entertainment society, creating works as effective as advertising posters or Hollywood photographs.

A nice set of 5 serigraphs at auction by Shepard Fairey aka Obey.

Fred Brouard, a celebrated sculptor and designer of furniture and jewelry was born in Normandy, France, on April 28, 1944. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, where he studied under Savary Leleu, a well-known painter and sculptor.

Three important paintings by Jacques Germain at auction on Wednesday 31 March.

Roy Lichtenstein takes a modernist perspective of the picture plane by utilizing a method of commercial design through comic strips and advertisement. Lichtenstein integrates the readymade quality of screen prints and integrates a painterly gesture with the use of thick lines, flat surface planes, and obscured perspective.

Born in 1878 in Bordeaux. Died in 1956 in Paris. 20th century, Marcel Cosson is a French Post-Impressionist painter.
He first exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, of which he became a member, honorable mention in 1901, third medal in 1911, then at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and at the Salon des Tuileries.
He often treated subjects of opera, ballet, circus. He was a painter of women, of Parisian life, of the world of dance and theater. (ref. Bénézit)
 

Some paintings are presented in auction but do not meet the same success as the watercolors or gouaches which by their technique brings an incomparable nuance, retranscribing the atmosphere of the sea wanted by the artist Haffner

The paintings and watercolors of Alexander Roubtzoff are very successful. The quotation of this artist is stable, without evolution these last years.
This artist of Russian origin fell under the spell of Tunisia. He established his residence there permanently. His paintings, drawings and watercolors are a true testimony of the richness of artistic creation in Tunis between the two wars.

The quotation of the artist Gaston Chaissac is very disparate, depending on the subjects and periods of his work.

What quotation for the artist Olivier Debré ? 

Olivier Debré (1920-1999) was quickly attracted to painting, immersed in an artistic environment, his grandfather being the painter Edouard Debat-Ponsan (1847-1913). After graduating from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, he attended Le Corbusier's studio. His first solo exhibition in 1949 was positively received by the critics. This is the time when he met Hartung, Pierre Soulages, Michel Atlan, Dewasne, Deyrolle or Gérard Schneider.  He represented France in 967 at the Universal Exhibition in Montreal. Great retrospective in 1995 at the Jeu de Paume.

Jacques Germain was a French artist who studied at the Académie Moderne directed by Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. It was during this period that Blaise Cendrars and Fernand Léger advised his parents to send him to the Bauhaus in 1931.

Sam Francis, an aesthetic of color
Sam Francis is an American artist who developed an aesthetic of color in his paintings. He is part of different movements of his time linked to famous artists such as Rothko, Pollock or Kooning. Non-figurative painting, the background of his paintings serves as a support for the theatrical space for his figures and the relationship between figures and backgrounds embodies the story he tells.

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At the age of fifteen, Barye began his apprenticeship with a metal engraver. This awakened his vocation as a sculptor, which he confirmed by becoming Bosio's pupil in 1816.

George Lavroff was born in Siberia on April 18, 1895. In 1927, he leaves for France to create numerous art deco animal sculptures. Back in Russia in 1935, George Lavroff became an official artist and created, in connection with this status and the Soviet regime, monumental sculptures and busts of Soviet leaders. The sculptor George Lavroff died on August 29, 1991.

Jean-Léon Gérôme went to Paris in 1841 and was a pupil of Paul Delaroche, whom he accompanied to Italy in 1844-1845. On his return, he made a name for himself at the 1846 Salon with his "Combat de coqs", a painting that already illustrated his concern for authentic detail and for which he received the gold medal. Then he changed genre and exhibited: The Virgin, The Child Jesus and St. John, and, as during : Anacreon, Bacchus and Love. In 1848 Gérôme was awarded a second medal. He then gave: Bacchus and Love drunk, Greek Interior and Remembrance of Italy (1851), View of Paestum (1852), Idyll (1853).

The sculptor Armand Martial (1884- 1960), winner of the Prix de Rome in 1913, responded to many official commissions and war memorials, including the equestrian statue of the King of the Belgians Albert I.

Jean Dufy was born under the first names Jean Jacques Gustave on March 12, 1888 in Le Havre, the seventh of a family of eleven children, from a father who was an accountant in a metallurgy company and a talented amateur musician. After his military service (1910-1912), he moved to Paris where he met Derain, Braque, Picasso and Apollinaire. In his first watercolors, exhibited at Berthe Weill's gallery in 1914, muted tones, browns, blues, dark reds, rub shoulders with the hatching technique inherited from Cézanne through the work of his brother Raoul Dufy.

Ary Bitter, born in Marseille on May 29, 1883 and died on June 14, 1973 in Paris, is a French sculptor.

Paul Jouve has traveled to zoos all over the world to observe lions, tigers and panthers.
His paintings are of perfect anatomical accuracy, evoking with power, suppleness, and nobility of the big cats.
His unmistakable style, characteristic makes him the great representative of the wild beasts.

Shane Guffogg (born August 12, 1962) is an American artist associated with the abstract art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, drawing, and sculpture. Guffogg lives and works between Los Angeles and Strathmore, California.

Freeing himself from Maillol's lessons, Robert Couturier (1905-2008) preferred line to modeling.
With a minimum of means, he sculpts feminine nudes, often filiform, in the image of this woman wiping her leg (h. 132 cm). This is a bronze print bearing the mark of Susse Frères in Paris. Dated 1952, numbered 3/6, sold at 87 000 € including costs.

"It's a great source of pride to know that we have brought emotion to people who have a museum of contemporary art. Entering the museum is the pleasure of sharing one's art, of delivering new sensations. »

Andy Warhol, his real name is Andrew Warhola, was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents are of Slovak origin. In 1945 he studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburg, where he discovered advertising. In 1949, he obtained the title of Bachelor of Fine Arts. It is during these studies that he adopts the technique of stamped drawing.
Andy Warhol first worked as an advertising designer in New York, notably for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. He then worked for Glamour Magazine, Dance Magazine and the New York Times in 1955.

Jacky Kennedy, always "Bankable".
"Fashion passes, style remains": Jackie Kennedy perfectly embodies Coco Chanel's adage. Known for her natural elegance, the famous first lady of the 60's has remained an essential figure of style.

Setting a record at 95 million euros for Three Studies by Lucian Freud, auctioned off in November 2013, Francis Bacon moves into the category of the most expensive artists in the world behind Picasso and Warhol but before Monet or Richter.

Arman, throughout his life developed several creative processes around objects, including accumulation, destruction and cutting. He nevertheless ended up transcending them by accelerating their life process, making them eternal in the manner of Pompei.

This bronze presented at the auction on February 24th at 3 pm was made from a plaster from the original wax casting executed by Degas. The Little Dancer of fourteen years old (also entitled Great Dancer dressed) is a sculpture by Edgar Degas made in wax between 1875 and 1880.
 

Vladimir Putin has been a fan of mechanical watches for many years and Blancpain is undeniably his favorite brand, but he also collects other prestigious brands. Of course, this information does not come out of the blue, but it is enough to have a trained eye and to observe on some photos or videos, during international meetings, the wrist of the head of state.

The premier cru "Amoureuses" is one of the most famous in Burgundy for pinot noir.  Four lots of six bottles are offered for auction on Wednesday, February 24th at 3 pm.

Painter qualified of informal, Jean Fautrier even in his figurative period makes emerge the light of the objects, flush on the surface of a thick and granular material.

Three cellars from amateurs of different landscapes.
Some nice references to remember!

Father of the "Man in White", he is one of the first Parisian street painters. In thirty years, his art has become an artistic current commonly known as "urban art" or "graffiti".

André Vincent Becquerel is a French sculptor who specialized in animal sculpture, mainly in bronze and chryselephantine.