Balthus (1908-2001)

This sale features works by Survage, Balthus and Vlaminck from various estates and collections.

The Chateau of Versailles is restoring the official history painter to his rightful place. The heir to a long line of artists and a friend of Géricault, his links with Asia were as enigmatic as they are troubling.

On September 7, German art collector and patron Heiner Pietzsch died in Berlin at the age of 91.

Since Muriel Mayette's departure, he has been acting in the interim as director of the famous villa, the French Academy in Rome. A return to its roots. 

Sold today by an art lover who was a close friend of Pierre Matisse, this large charcoal and stump drawing was a preparatory work for a painting that was never completed.

Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) is among the headliners at a modern and contemporary art auction.

Sam Stourdzé, 49, has been director of the French Academy in Rome since September 2020. The photography and cinema specialist talks about his determination to make the Academy a place open to both contemporary creation and a revisited history of art.

This art historian specializing in the Rothschild collections is co-curator of an exhibition devoted to the women of the family by the Musée La Boverie in Liège. A new light on some outstanding women collectors and donors.

In Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Rebecca Sack and Aude Louis Carvès opened the only gallery specializing in paintings by Japanese artists of the Nouvelle École de Paris. They told us more about this promising new market.

For its third edition, Fine Arts Paris is no longer focusing only on graphic arts and sculpture, hitherto its trademark, but is opening out to new specialties.