Echoes of art
Find the Parisian atmosphere with this charming painting by Edouard Cortes, Paris by night, View of the Boulevard de la Madeleine
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Another gem from the Richard de Grab estate. An unpublished drawing by the artist René Magritte.
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From the Richard de Grab estate, this drawing was executed during the photo shoot in Henry Moore's studio.
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Two works on paper by Joan Miro, a dedication by Miro and a silver print of the artist by Richard de Grab.
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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.
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Part of the Richard de Grab estate, this drawing by Edouard Dermitt, known as Doudou. But who was he?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Who wouldn't have dreamed of working with Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Peggy Guggenheim, Otto Preminger, Igor Stravinsky...
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Two individuals attempted to steal a painting by Claude Monet, which they eventually abandoned after a witness intervened.
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To celebrate Picasso's 140th birthday, Sotheby's is partnering with MGM Resorts to host the largest art auction ever held in Las Vegas.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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.
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As part of the Richard de Grab estate, this portrait of a woman dating from 1963 will be presented at auction.
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Numerous dedications of Salvador Dali, accompanied by drawings, photographs will be presented at auction in the context of the sale of June 9.
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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
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Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa (1854-1936) known as Antonio Fabrés, what value for his drawings or paintings, what quotation to attribute?
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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.
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.
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Joseph Bernard, what quotation on the art market?
Let's take a look at the life of Joseph Bernard, who was he?
Let's take a look at the life of Joseph Bernard, who was he?
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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.
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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.
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Demeter Haralamb Chiparus
Demeter Haralamb Chiparus (1886-1947) was a sculptor of the Art Deco era. He lived and worked in Paris.
Demeter Haralamb Chiparus (1886-1947) was a sculptor of the Art Deco era. He lived and worked in Paris.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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)
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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
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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.
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.
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The quotation of the artist Gaston Chaissac is very disparate, depending on the subjects and periods of his work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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DOMAINE DE JOUANDA: Armagnac is the oldest brandy in France!
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LES AMOUREUSES DE MOINE HUDELOT
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ary Bitter, born in Marseille on May 29, 1883 and died on June 14, 1973 in Paris, is a French sculptor.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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"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. »
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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.
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.
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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.
"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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André Vincent Becquerel is a French sculptor who specialized in animal sculpture, mainly in bronze and chryselephantine.
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