Echoes of art

Gardner Museum Hold-Up, a Case Still Unsolved
On March 18, 1990, the art community was stunned when a pair of thieves broke into Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, dressed as police officers, and stole 13 priceless pieces of art.
Among the stolen artworks were five pieces by French impressionist Edgar Degas and three works by painter Rembrandt van Rijn, according to the Gardner Museum.
Recognized as one of the most famous and longest-running art theft investigations, the Gardner Museum theft is a case to remember. 13 works of art stolen from the museum for which the case has never been solved since.
 

Do you know how a bronze sculpture is made?
It is designed by a founder.

Visit of the exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie: Sam Szafran, obsessions of a painter.
This is not a retrospective but rather a tribute.
The Musée de l'Orangerie and the artist had a special relationship: Szafran exhibited there regularly and was particularly involved in the museum's programming, giving regular lectures on art. The museum dedicated a retrospective to him in 2007.
So, I am not going to give you a detailed report of the exhibition because it does not lend itself to it: this is linked to the nature of this complex artist: it is necessary to see his works in order to experience them and to enter the universe of Sam Szafran.

Remember, I took you to the Louis Vuitton Foundation, which staged the face to face between Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet's Water Lilies. I shared with you my point of view on this subject, but that's not the point of the day, so I invite you to watch my video on this subject.

So here we are again in a face to face, but which, I must say, is not quite the same here.

To use the term of the Musée de l'Orangerie, it is a contemporary counterpoint between the two artists Mickalene Thomas and Claude Monet.

Retrouvez les lots phares de la vente aux enchères du 8 décembre 2022, à 16h
De l’art contemporain à l’art classique pour les amateurs d’art, des bijoux et des montres d’exception, des sacs et accessoires de luxe.
Des bouteilles de vin pour les œnophiles.

A set of works on paper, fabrics and photos of the artist are sold at auction on Thursday, December 8, 2022.

The Lalanne's are back on Expertisez.comLess impressive than the recently dispersed Dorothée Lalanne collection, a few works by the Lalalle couple are presented for auction.

Three works on paper are presented at auction.

Last November, Paul Allen's art collection was sold for $1.6 billion in New York.
A record!

The collection of Dorothée Lalanne, daughter of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, here are the results.

Here are the lots to remember in our auction this Saturday, November 19, in the Dax area.

Let's discover today the exhibition "Face au Soleil" which is held at the Musée Marmottan in Paris until January 29th 2023.
This exhibition highlights the evolution of the representation of the Sun in the arts from the highest antiquity until today.

Everyone knows Guernica by Pablo Picasso

What is its history?

Everyone knows the Mona Lisa.

But what is its history?

Today I'm taking you to the Musée Pompidou to discover the Alice Neel exhibition which runs until January 16, 2023.



With the exception of travelers who were able to see the retrospective in New York 'People come first' at the MOMA which ended in August 2021, it is likely that many of you did not know this artist.

Gérard Garouste exhibition held at the Musée Pompidou in Paris, until January 2, 2023.

The Centre Pompidou celebrates the work of Gérard Garouste, a major figure on the French contemporary art scene.

Hard-Edge painting may not be familiar to everyone.

It is an artistic movement whose main characteristic denotes painted works in which the transitions are abrupt between areas of color, often of the same color.

I take you today to Saint-Paul de Vence to discover a remarkable exhibition "At the heart of abstraction, from the collection of the Gandur Foundation for Art".

French street artist born in 1973 in Bondy.

An atypical course: a formation in a catholic college in Province, then studies of hisoitede the art, economy and languages in Paris.

Jean-Gaston Mantel is a French painter born in 1914 who studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He lived mainly in Morocco after working in Paris as an illustrator.

He is the author of numerous posters and decorative frescoes promoting Moroccan tourism: long panels at the Hilton Hotel in Rabat or various representations of Moroccan life at the Ministry of Tourism featuring dancers, fantasia scenes or more intimate scenes featuring women and children.

Everyone knows Rodin's Bronze Age
What is the price of this work and what is its history?

4 tableaux de l'artiste Benjamin Spark aux enchères.
Retrouvez en moins d'une minute qui est Spark et sa cote en vente aux enchères

Plusieurs pochettes de disques rares dont la pochette est designée par les plus grands Combas, Haring, Kaws, Basquiat.

Le thème du taureau est incontournable dans l’œuvre de Rosa Bonheur.

Quel est le prix de ses œuvres et pourquoi cet amour rural ?

A magnificent exhibition is taking place until February 12 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.
Through examples of some paintings that interested me, I propose you to take this red thread, which will allow to understand the artistic approach of Oskar Kokoshka.

What is the price of Edouard Marcel Sandoz sculptures?

Sandoz sculptures are sought after by collectors and few remain unsold at auction.
Commonly, this sculptor is classified as an animal sculptor, but you will see that Edouard Marcel Sandoz had a busy and diversified career.

This exhibition named "Vertigo of the Imagination" is a true discovery of an artist little known to the public. Let's take a step back and discover this extraordinary artist, through this exhibition of 250 works of the artist, declined in the form of paintings, posters, lithographs, drawings and ceramics.

The Hostages theme is highly sought after by collectors.
What is their price and their history?

L'ours est le sujet mythique et le plus connu du public.
Anecdote : François Pompon a 67 ans lorsqu'il sort soudainement de l'ombre avec son monumental Ours blanc, exposé au Salon d'Automne de 1922.

Picasso's ceramics in a few key points !

Aesclepios is a bronze sculpture that collectors are looking for. What is its price and its history?

Sandoz's animal sculptures are the most highly valued.

The results of Pompon's sculptures range from 3,000 to 250,000 euros
If the average of the sculptures oscillate between 15,000 and 30,000 euros, it is necessary to linger more precisely on the subjects of the sculptures, the materials, bronze, stone, plaster, porcelain to decipher the estimate of each one of them.

The originality of Gustave Miklos' works lies in his refined style. The forms are elongated and his sculptures and paintings are similar to the cubism of the beginning of the 20th century, sometimes going as far as abstraction.

What is the value of a sculpture by Robert Wlerick?
Auction results for Robert Wlerick sculptures range from 2,000 to 23,000 Euros.
While busts are less sought after by collectors, female or mythological subjects are sought after and are the ones that have the best results for the artist Robert Wlerick's price.

Among the almost two hundred lots covering various categories (wine, luxury goods, drawings, paintings), collectors will be able to go home with a bestiary by Barye, Mêne, or Martel... Ladies and gentlemen, the bestiary of Expertisez.com is up for auction!
If the fascination of artists for animals does not date from yesterday, animal sculpture has known its golden age in the 19th century, in the lyrical line of the romantics. Today, it is the rarer 20th century animal sculpture that fetches the best prices.
Indeed, animals are a universal, timeless subject... They first inspired the Romantics, in painting and then in sculpture, fascinated by animals, symbols of a nature that is sometimes harsh, sometimes sensitive. In the 19th century, the representation of animals is fighting, excessive and the style is realistic. Antoine-Louis Barye is undoubtedly the leader in this field. A pioneer, he was noticed at the Paris Salon of 1831 where his bronze "A tiger having surprised a young crocodile devours it" made an impression. He will lead in his wake the leading figures of animal sculpture of his time, namely Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), Auguste Cain (1821-1894), Christophe Fratin (1801-1864), Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910), Pierre-Jules Mêne (1810-1879) and Jules Moigniez (1835-1894)... Horses, hunting dogs, elephants, giraffes, birds, lions, roosters... are the darlings of the latter. 

Odilon Roche from merchant to artist, a beautiful set of works on paper on the theme of women.

A Pompon Yves Klein collaboration, an explosive mix.

A nice dedication addressed to one of her friends on the occasion of a retrospective of her work in 1994.

Notice to art lovers: 4 works by the artist Kiyoshi Hasegawa

"Anthropometry" is the term coined by Pierre Restany (anthropo, from the Greek anthropos: man, and metrie: measurement) to name what Klein called "the technique of living brushes". And it is indeed a measure of the living that the artist wants to communicate and develops in 1960. The work presented here is therefore one of the artist's first achievements in this field.

2 beautiful paintings of Claude Vénard dated repsectivement of 1943 and 1945

Nice selection of wines and spirits, presenting a beautiful set of magnums of Château Beychevelle, a decanter of Hennessy Cuvée Ellipse cognac as well as a decanter of Hennessy Cuvée Richard Hennessy cognac.

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

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

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

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

Two paintings by Max Agostini that immerse us in the flowery atmosphere of spring at auction 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;

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.

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

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. [...]