Alain Godon (Né en 1964)

Alain Moatti (1939-2023) was an erudite antiquarian and a tireless curiosity seeker, renowned in particular for his knowledge of bronzes and majolica. He left a library in which sculpture and the fine arts occupy pride of place.

The Belgian banker has been collecting art for art’s sake since the mid-1990s. Part of his collection is on display in his old Brussels loft twice a year.

Mauboussin chairman and CEO Alain Némarq, who gave the brand’s image and catalog a fresh look, is a knowledgeable art lover.

As head of the Strategic Board of the Richemont Group and President of the Fondation Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art and the Jeu de Paume in Paris, Alain-Dominique Perrin is a busy man. Between flights, he agreed to join the Biennale Paris Commission. As a plain speaker. 

Vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts and leader of the Severe Style, or Soviet neo-Realism, Tahir Salakhov, born in Baku in 1928, died on May 21. He followed shortly after the French-American sculptor Alain Kirili, who died at age 74. Kirili's post-minimalist Great White Commandment can be seen at the Tuileries.

Alain Jammes d'Ayzac (1883-1951) was the curator of the Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon and an important patron of the Vendée artists of his time.

On May 20, the contemporary art gallery will open a solo show of the French abstract sculptor - who died in 2021 at age 74 - in its New York space. Five of the six pieces in the “Totems” series will be exhibited, the 6th shown in their Paris branch starting April 20. The set is offered at €750,000.

The three-Michelin starred chef created the menu of Drouot’s restaurant, L’Adjugé, which now offers restyled bistro cuisine.

Art historian Alain Erlande Brandenburg, a great specialist of Gothic cathedrals - in particular Notre-Dame of Paris - died on June 6 at the age of 82. After having directed the Cluny Museum and the National Archives of France, he was the director of the National Museum of the Renaissance at the Château d'Écouen.

A portrait of the king's entire family stood out at the sale of the collections furnishing Baron Alain de Montgascon's private mansion in La Flèche.