Abel Boyé (1864-1933)

It might not have come top of the bidding at the Cannes sale of 26 October, but a highly unusual armchair was perhaps the real star of the occasion. The 1902 chair came from an Alpes-Maritime collection, and as well as the technical description of "model...

Abel-Truchet's painting depicts the capital's wild nightlife with a ball full of nudity that smacks of a Happening… The good news is that complements the rich collection of the Paris museum that just bought it.

The Mystical Marriage by the Piedmontese painter, and the Cain and Abel by the Neapolitan Baroque painter Giordano, led the auction on Friday, selling for €211,200 and €192,000 respectively under Ader's hammer. 

At the Louvre’s invitation, over 70 masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum are on display at the Parisian institution. A fluid, sensitive and perceptive reading of the two institutions’ collections is paired with innovative exhibition methods.

This 53rd sale is the final chapter—in Paris—of Aristophil's literary collections. It consists of letters and manuscripts spanning five centuries, along with a few books.

These two figures, a shining couple of the French New Wave and liberated, engagé cinema, died in 2020. Their collection reflects an unconventional life full of encounters.

Rediscovered Old Masters and period furniture made by the greatest names rivaled each other at this sale.

The event in Artigny fulfilled the expectations of old and modern art lovers with works by Dufy, Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir while opening up to more distant perspectives.

The Bishop of Mâcon, Clermont and Tours commissioned this table, which is remarkable for its late 17th-century Florentine scagliola top featuring a crest.

The modern paintings from a Left bank apartment are likely to attract more interest than the furniture, art objects and Chinese porcelain.