Alfred Janniot (1889-1969)

A major piece in Alfred Janniot's corpus, a torso of his wife will be offered €25,000/26,000 by Mirabaud Mercier on June 16, in Room 15 at Drouot. The sculptor worked on this model between 1927 and 1929, just after the success of the Hommage à Jean Goujon at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1925.

An impressively sized bas-relief by Alfred-Auguste Janniot, a leading French Art Deco artist, will come up for auction in Gien.

Now a figure of classical art history, sculptor Alfred Boucher achieved great fame during his lifetime.

Modern artists Constantine Korovin, Henri Hayden, Moïse Kisling and Alfred Boucher celebrated fruits and flowers.

Alfred Sisley frequently and poetically championed the medieval French town of Moret-sur-Loing. This painting with its impeccable traceability adds a fresh note to the series. 

Mankind's most magnificent conquest was Alfred de Dreux's chief source of inspiration. A passionate horse lover, the artist celebrated them with some of his finest works.

The unclassifiable artist explored several roads before tending towards painting bordering on hyperrealism.

“The Angel of bad taste”, as his critics referred to him, is joining Hervé Loevenbruck’s roster. The Jacques Callot street gallerist intends to revitalize the image of the French painter (1898-1993), forgotten by the art world since the late 1980s, as he managed to do for the work of Alina Szapocznikow.

We visited the famous shoe designer in a theatrical apartment crammed with furniture and knick-knacks, where he told us about his passions and sponsorship of the Cinémathèque Française and the Palais de la Porte Dorée, in Paris.

Furniture and lighting fixtures by Edgar Brandt and Raymond Subes from an apartment in the famous Walter buildings in Paris remind us that wrought iron reigned supreme in interwar France.