Alexandre Kéléty (1900-1940)

The painter of the royal hunts made this pair of still lifes in 1731, when he was master of the genre and already the reference in France.

Before becoming the realistic and sensitive portraitist we know, Alexander Roubtzoff depicted scenes of Tunisian daily life, such as this women’s market.

The Paris-based auction house has announced on Twitter and Instagram that it is taking on a new name and will have more information soon. The auction house is perhaps best known for the October 2021 sale of “Big John”, hailed as the “largest known triceratops skeleton” by the Guardian, for €6,651,100 (with fees).

Just two lots out of 391 had no taker at this sale orchestrated by Tessier-Sarrou on November 21. Among the precious accounts of a history seen through the eyes of the White Russians, a nomination for the Cross of Saint-Georges awarded to Koltchak by Nicolas II was sold for €211,200. 

Alexandre Devals, known for having directed the Bernar Venet Foundation from 2014 to 2021, will open a space under the arcades of the Palais Royal, in the 1st arrondissement in Paris. He will represent the great figures of minimal art and their "heirs". Inauguration on September 15 with the work of Philippe Decrauzat.

His dazzling, virtuosic rendering of fruit skins and birds' plumage made the master's Still Life a distinct rival to an extremely rare series of Inca emperor portraits.

Their reserve barely conceals an ambition honed at elite schools. At 25 and 27, the grandsons of Dina Vierny, the post-war gallery owner and Maillol's muse, are taking over the Left Bank’s oldest gallery.

Hervé Van der Straeten designed a collection for antique dealer Alexandre Biaggi – a match made in heaven for two people with a love of decorative arts.

The set of drawings by painter, humanist, and libertarian Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923) was the jewel of Beaussant-Lefèvre’s October 23 auction of Jean-Claude Delauney’s library. It entered into the Musée d’Orsay collections for the sum of €446,557.

Alexandre Giquello and Brice Pescheteau Badin, president and director of Drouot Patrimoine and Drouot Enchère, respectively, spelled out the Paris auction house’s new policy. Openness and French know-how are the bywords.