Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

About 60 prints, paintings, drawings, books, autographs and objets d'art together with traditional African and Asian art from the collection of Lucie Scheler and her father Lucien are coming up for auction.

This pastel from around 1896-1899 is a study for a painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

The Ugandan artist (1980), who represented his native country at the Venice Biennale this year, has joined the powerful Blum & Poe Gallery. He will be exhibited this week at the gallery's booth at Art Basel Miami Beach. Nathalie Obadia, in Paris, had also announced in Oct a collaboration with the artist.

This study by Edgar Degas for the Portrait of Mlle Dubourg, now in the Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio), passed through the collections of Mme Lazare Weiller and her son, Paul-Louis Weiller.

Created c. 1896-1899, the work is a study for a painting kept at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., from the former, and oh so prestigious, collection of Julie Reinach-Goujon. It turned the heads of art lovers this past Friday in Drouot, at twice its high estimate.

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.

This unusual Degas work depicts a View of the Quirinal, painted during a stay in Rome around 1856. A true enrichment of the Fondation Custodia’s collection of plein air studies, the work will be on show from December 2021 to April 2022 as part of an exhibition on genre painting.

The pastel Woman Bathing (ca. 1886), set to go on permanent display in the Amsterdam museum, may have featured in a show dedicated to Degas’ female nudes, which Van Gogh attended; inspired by the French artist, he mirrored his style in his own studies, for example with body positioning and the use of crosshatching.

In collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Musée d’Orsay focuses on the year 1874 and the first exhibition of independent artists who were soon to be called “Impressionists”.

Four drawings by Odilon Redon, bought by Louis-Charles Libaude at the time, encapsulate a brilliant, unclassifiable artist, and are scheduled to take flight once more.