Francis Picabia

London – Christie’s The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale will directly follow the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, launching ‘20th Century at Christie’s’ on 5 February 2020. The Surreal season is highlighted by René Magritte’s poetic masterpiece A la rencontre du plaisir (Towards Pleasure) (1962, estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000), which has remained in a private collection for over 50 years and has never been offered on the market until now. A total of seven paintings by Magritte are... [Lire la suite]

Jean Dufy (Le Havre, 1888 - Boussay, 1964), Venise, le Grand Canal, 1929. Oil on canvas, 65 x 80 cm (25.5 x 31.5 in.) Signed and dated lower center 'Jean Dufy 29'. Daphne Alazraki Fine Art (Stand 363). © TEFAF 2018 This painting is sold with a certificate of authenticity from Jacques Bailley. Provenance: Collection Kleinmann & Co, New York; Private collection, Europe. Literature: Jacques Bailly, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre Jean Dufy, 1888-1964, France 2011, volume I, p. 354, no.... [Lire la suite]

French, 18th century, After the Antique, Bust of Antinous, white marble, on a cippolino marble socle and column; bust: 75cm., 29½in.; socle: 18cm., 7 1/8in.; base: 6.5cm., 6½in.; column: 115cm., 45¼in. Estimate £100,000-150,000. Courtesy Sotheby’s LONDON.- Artists throughout history have been drawn to the human form. In the second edition of Sotheby’s Erotic: Passion & Desire sale, Pre-Columbian sculpture will be paired with Picasso works on paper; masters of... [Lire la suite]

Gaspare Traversi, (Napoli 1722 ca. - Roma 1770), The Monk, the Novice, and the Maiden. Oil on canvas, 24 3/8 x 29 1/8 inches (62 x 74 cm.). Courtesy Robert Simon Fine Art. NEW YORK, NY.- Fifteen of the city's preeminent galleries-all clustered on the Upper East Side-are hosting simultaneous opening-night receptions to kick off the first edition of October Art Week, October 20 to 26. The gallery receptions, open to the public and comfortably walkable from one another, are being held to expand upon the buzz and... [Lire la suite]

François Boucher, Academic Study of A Reclining Male Nude, about 1750. The Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Endowment Fund. CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago presents 84 hitherto unexhibited masterful drawings carefully and thoughtfully acquired over the last quarter century in an exhibition titled Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions. Building upon an established and world-renowned collection, these masterpieces range from the French and Italian schools of the 17th century to Swiss,... [Lire la suite]

Jacopino del Conte, (Florence 1510 – Rome 1598) Portrait of a man with a glove. Oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches (75 x 59 cm). Photo: Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of portrait and self-portrait paintings by notable European and American artists from the sixteenth century to the present. This survey includes Old Master paintings from Italy, France, England, and The Netherlands, as well as works by modern and contemporary artists. The breadth of the works in... [Lire la suite]

Paul Cézanne (1830-1906), Pichet et fruits sur une table. oil on paper laid down on panel, 41.5 by 72.3 cm. 16 3/8 by 28 1/2 in. Painted in 1893-94. Estimate 10,000,000 - 15,000,000 GBP. photo courtesy Sotheby's LONDON.- Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 will be the first ever London sale of its kind to include three works individually estimated to realise more than £10 million. The works - each one a masterpiece - are by Klimt, Giacometti and Cézanne. They form the nucleus... [Lire la suite]

Francis Picabia (1879-1953), L’Espagnole, aquarelle, encre et crayon sur papier, vers 1925-1926, 61 x 43 cm. Estimation : 40 000/50 000 €. Ne vous laissez pas leurrer par ce joli minois signé Francis Picabia. Non, le peintre de toutes les métamorphoses ne rejoint pas ici les rangs du classicisme, mais bien au contraire - dans un genre qu’il affectionne, la dérision - le dénonce. Cette démarche dadaïste s’inscrit dans une réflexion plus globale de l’artiste sur la finalité de la peinture, et de l’art en général. On l’a connu... [Lire la suite]

Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Transparence au cheval et au taureau, huile sur carton marouflé sur panneau, 74 x 71 cm. Estimation :300 000/400 000 €. Francis Picabia est aussi insaisissable que les lignes fluides de ses Transparences. Il débute en s’inspirant de Sisley, allant jusqu’à revisiter Moret-sur-Loing et ses environs. Ses tableaux post-impressionnistes sont salués par la critique et achetés par le public. Selon une formule un tant soit peu judicieuse, on peut déplacer doucement le curseur vers plus d’audace. Le... [Lire la suite]

Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), Les Vestales, 1972, huile sur toile, signée et datée, 140 x 190 cm. Estimation : 1 000 000/1 200 000 €. Si le goût du XIXe marquera la première vente, c’est la peinture du XXe qui conclura ces trois jours ; entre les deux, le dimanche à 20 h 30, place sera faite aux bijoux. "L’émeraude ne perd pas de sa valeur faute de louanges", disait l’empereur Marc-Aurèle. Tant mieux, car une superbe paire de pendants d’oreilles Repossi composés de deux émeraudes taille coussin, de 61,48 ct et 54,45 ct,... [Lire la suite]