Claude Bonnefond (1796-1860)

Each of them continually experimented with their art and broke new ground. One marked painting in 19th-century Lyon with his Romantic touch; the other contributed to the great Cubist revolution of the last century.

A landscape with willows painted shortly after the master moved to Giverny is shortly coming up at auction. The painting with its iridescent light has not been seen in public since 1948.

Claude Venard took the top six spots in a sale dedicated to French 1950s figurative painters, especially those of the Forces Nouvelles movement.

The outbuildings of the Château de Ferrières turned out to contain a number of rare antiquarian books that were the object of enviable scrutiny.

Last week the gallery unveiled its new location at 21 quai Voltaire, not far from the Berès Gallery. Claude Vittet is an expert in the Northern schools of the 16th-17th centuries, the French landscape painters of the 18th century, and the art of miniature painting.

Ten pre-emptions and a world record for Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. Assembled by three generations with the same passion and high standards, the collection garnered €2,136,594 during its three-day sale. An apotheosis for its owner.

At 18 years old, the future father of Impressionism was already famous for his caricatures, a fine example of which has just been sold in Deauville.

An 18th-century Parisian silver shaker scattered its blessings on a sale devoted to silverware.

With books, drawings, sundials, Normandy silverware and more, we are talking serious quantities, here: for this former President of the Bar seems to have a boundless taste for art.

Claude Bernard was one of the most prominent gallerists in France. After a long struggle with illness, Bernard passed away on Wednesday at the age of 93. Since his art debut in 1957, many hefty names have passed through his books, amongst them Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Giacometti and many others. (LeFigaro)