Echoes of art

A magnificent selection of 260 bottles of vintage champagne, among the great vintages of history such as the 1955 vintage, but also bottles from the 1952, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964 and 1970 vintages will be presented at this sale.

A beautiful collection from a close friend of Claude Lalanne, who shared her love of nature.

This double-sided work by Banksy "Space Girl" was exhibited as part of the Dismaland exhibition.

Bouquillon's works are mainly busts or statues in bronze or plaster. By their sobriety, the sculptor tries to "breathe a soul" into them according to Christine Gleiny. 

Georges Lucien Guyot was born in Paris in 1885. He made an apprenticeship with a wood sculptor and first reproduced old works but very soon he showed an attraction for nature. He regularly visits the Jardin des Plantes where he studies and draws animals, with a preference for felines, bears and monkeys.

André Vincent Becquerel (1893-1981) is a French sculptor. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, under the direction of Hector Lemaire and Prosper Lecourtier.

Son of an English officer and a French mother, Charles Cumberworth (1811-1852) arrived in Paris at a very young age. A pupil of the sculptor James Pradier (1790-1852), he entered the School of Fine Arts in 1829 and won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1842.

Christophe Fratin was born in 1801 in Metz and died in 1864 in Le Raincy, near Paris. According to sources, his father was a shoemaker or - which could be the origin of his son's vocation - an animal stuffer.

Charles Artus (1897-1978) is considered to be the animal sculptor of the interwar period who knew how to stylize like Pompon, with enough originality not to be regarded as a pupil or follower of the "Pioneer of Style".

Maximilien Fiot is a French sculptor born in Le Grand-Pressigny in 1886. He is the pupil of the French sculptor Prosper Lecourtier.

This French sculptor, born in Geneva into a Protestant family who took refuge in Switzerland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, made a career in France that was very much supported by court commissions.

François Pompon is a French sculptor born in 1855 in Saulieu and died in 1933 in Paris. 
Born into a family of craftsmen, he began his apprenticeship with his father, a carpenter-cabinet maker.

In 1928, Robert Couturier met Maillol, who encouraged him to pursue his career in sculpture. He tells him: "You, Couturier, in the bad-ass genre, you will do something very well". Indeed, Robert Couturier's sculptures, generally in bronze, are particular. He conceives an innovative representation of the human body by stretching their limbs and playing with space.

Alexander Calder was born in 1898 into a family of artists. 
His grandfather and father, Alexander Stirling Calder, are famous sculptors, and his mother, Nanette Lederer Calder, is a painter. As a child, Calder had his own workshop and made jewelry for his little sister's dolls and brass animals from scrap metal.

Shane Guffogg (Guf-fogg; 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.

The inventory of his gallery exhibitions, museum retrospectives, commissions and awards would be endless. From the 1980s onwards, his fame spread to Asia, Singapore - where he worked with the architect Ieoh Ming Pei -, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.

Mübin Orhon was born in Istanbul in 1924, and it was during his first years in Paris, in parallel with his doctorate, that he began taking drawing courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

Jean-Gaston Mantel is a French painter of Amiens origin, having lived mainly in Morocco; he is mainly known for his paintings of Moroccan landscapes.

Theo Tobiasse, was born in Israel in 1927. His family, who came from Lithuania, hoped to find the Promised Land there.
The work of this artist is imbued with the exile, the mother-lover, and reminiscences of childhood in Lithuania when his parents had to return there. The dacha in the green Kaletova countryside, the lights of the bullet-wheeled boats on the Neman, the sledges in the snowy streets of Kovno, but also the round teapots and the bellied samovars, symbols of family warmth...

Marcel Dyf is the pseudonym of Marcel Dreyfus, born in 1899 in Paris and died in 1985. His family instilled in him a real interest in art by taking him to galleries and museums, where he discovered the paintings of the great masters.
From a very young age he was influenced by the masters Raphael, Rembrandt, Vermeert and Tiepolo, whose works he admired in the Louvre. He is also influenced by the impressionist works and in particular the works of Renoir both in the themes and in the rendering of the light effects in his works. Post-impressionist painters who heralded Fauvism and Expressionism, his gaze holds Van Gogh back, and his literary spirit is inspired by the writings of Paul Valery.
His themes are often close to him, he paints the seaside and landscapes of Normandy, views of Paris, portraits of his wife. In his painting he also inserts gipsies, bohemian female figures which reveal his artistic sensitivity. He paints delicate portraits, and landscapes which take up again the impressionist techniques using the plays of light and the harmony of the colors while bringing a rhythm and a personal vision to it. The expressions, and the hands of Marcel Dyf's portraits translate his will to tell stories through the figures he paints.

Léonor Fini is a painter, engraver, lithographer, writer, illustrator and decorator. She was born in Buenos Aires in 1908. She spent her childhood in Trieste, Italy. Unlike many artists, she did not attend art school. It is her entourage and her love for books that instructs her in this field. She began painting at the age of fifteen.

KAWS is an American artist and designer who paints, sculpts and creates toys. Pop art and culture permeate his characters, such as Disney style Companion that resembles Takashi Murakami's illustrations.

Keith Haring was one of the most celebrated artists of his time, and even today everyone knows his incomparable style and repertoire of iconic signs.

French, Nasty was born in 1975. When his mother gave him a book on street-art, it was a revelation! He started graffiti in Paris in 1988, at the age of 13. 
Nasty, (translate "Méchant") is one of the most important underground artists in street-art.

Known internationally, Christian Guémy dit C215 presents works painted on recycled objects in many galleries in France and around the world.

Banksy is the pseudonym of an anonymous British artist, active since the 1990s. He is known for his satirical urban art. The artist uses stencil painting to get his messages across, often mixing politics, humour and poetry.

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.

Emile Gilioli is one of the leaders of post-war abstract sculpture, alongside Brancusi and Arp
 

Arriving in Paris in 1947, Orhon Mubin (1924-1981) discovered French Abstract Expressionism and was soon interested in the new pictorial practices born in the aftermath of the Second World War. The absurdity, doubt and fear provoked by the war introduced in artists a feeling of impossibility to represent reality with figurative art. They refocus on their emotions, their impulses and on the problems related to surface and space-time.

An exceptional painting by Jean Gaston Mantel at auction

On the occasion of the sale on Wednesday, October 14th, Expertisez.com / Encherissez.com will present a beautiful selection of bottles from a collector's cellar.

A mythical character of the graffiti scene, Banksy is identified as a modern-day troubadour. An illustrious artist, no social fact can resist him as he is so incisive and dishevelling in his art. Banksy has today his place among the greats of this world by his innumerable reprehensible but oh so subversive acts.

"We will find beauty in nobility and simplicity."

A beautiful model signed by Jean Despres

"We write forever or it's worthless. "Pierre Reverdy

Igor Mitoraj's sculptures are attractive because of their singularity. Indeed, he has a different version of the representation of the human body. He never sculpts it entirely.

If all the domestic and wild bestiary is part of his artistic universe, it is the wild animals and elephants that have been his favorite subjects. Figurative sculptor, he represents the animal without artifice, in his attitudes of daily life.

A very beautiful model featuring Orpheus at auction.

Edouard Goerg, appreciated by print lovers and bibliophiles, is an unknown painter. His flower-women, very conspicuous and evaporated, hide the artist's pre-war work.

Paul-Émile Pissarro is the fifth and last son of Camille Pissarro and Julie Vellay. Raised in an artistic household like his brothers, he seems to have been the most predisposed to painting.

In Morocco, Edy-Legrand is fascinated by the elements of life that he discovers in the incessant movement of the crowds and in the vibration of color through the play of light on the costumes and decor.

A horsewoman and a nude with a common denominator: liveliness of movement.

The works of Maurice Brianchon, a figurative painter anchored in the 20th century seem timeless. Because, far from the currents and fashions of his time, he has been able to question his sensibility constantly in order to release universal emotions, far from any intellectualism.

A painting of flowers by Marie Laurencin, a discovery

A beautiful grove of flowers by Vaclav Radimsky

A beautiful and rare portrait of Foujita's father at auction on October 14th.

Maurice Prendergast is an American draftsman, painter, and engraver born in 1858 in Canada. During his childhood, he moved to Boston with his family. In this city, he becomes the apprentice of a commercial painter. He then began to use light colors in his works. In 1891, he moved to Paris to continue his training at the Atelier Colarossi and the Académie Julian. 

Jean Dubuffet is a French painter and sculptor born in Le Havre in 1901 and died in 1985. Self-taught, he did not finish his artistic studies. Jean Dubuffet believes that art loses its value due to academic influences.

Marcel Wibault (born in 1904 in Besançon and died in February 1998 in Chamonix) is a painter known today especially for his numerous mountain paintings representing the Mont-Blanc, Chamonix, the great peaks of the Alps, the chalets, the flowers.

Alain-François Bouvier de Cachard was born in 1936 in Paris. His artist name is Raya Sorkine, surname and first name of his mother. The latter, a Jewish Russian emigrant, transmitted his Semitic and Slavic culture to him. He therefore lives under a joyful Jewish culture, punctuated by festivals and traditional music, whose colors, events and atmosphere resonate in his paintings. His culture is therefore the essential influence.

Robert Combas, born May 25, 1957 in Lyon is a French artist, painter, sculptor, illustrator and musician. It is moreover the music which founds his relationship with painting.

Jacques Germain entered the Modern Academy of Paris at the age of sixteen where he was a student of Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. A few months later, he left for the Bauhaus in Dessau where he studied under Wassily Kandinsky.

Gen Paul, a figure in Montmartre.

Jean Degottex is a French painter born in 1918. He does not follow any traditional training. Throughout his career, he experimented with different styles and methods.

A trip to Provence makes him discover its so particular light, and change the interpretation of its landscapes.

Antoine Carte, or Anto Carte, is a Belgian painter, lithographer, and illustrator born in 1886 in Mons.

Two multiple originals at auction on Wednesday, September 9

His main influence is Art Nouveau, with many subtly worked pieces: medallions, bronze statuettes and ceramics. Agathon Léonard's works are mainly exhibited at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris.

When the young Afro-American music-hall dancer Joséphine Baker and the French painter Paul Colin met during the rehearsals of La Revue Nègre in Paris in 1925, both were still unknown to the general public.

Igor Mitoraj's sculptures are attractive because of their singularity. Indeed, he has a different version of the representation of the human body. He never sculpts it entirely. On the contrary, he prefers to make broken, fragmented bodies, in order to give more strength and timelessness to his work.

Three beautiful gouaches of Baya auctioned by expertisez.com, our auction house.

Jean-Michel Basquiat is a painter and draftsman born in 1960 in New York. Pop art but also his beginnings as a street-artist influenced him in his painting and drawings combining neo-expressionism and primitivism.

Jean-Michel Basquiat is a painter and draftsman born in 1960 in New York.

Jean Pierre CASSIGNEUL (Né en 1935)
L'Orage, 2006

Georges Mathieu adjugé 30.000 euros