Gérard Fromanger (1939-2021)

Gérard Fromanger passed away on Friday in Paris, at age 81. He was one of the great representatives of narrative figuration. Fromanger was politically engaged and known for his paintings populated with red silhouettes - his favorite color. The Centre Pompidou had devoted a retrospective to him in 2016.

The powerful 20th-century works mirror the actor’s personality. Sculpture and Eugène Leroy took center stage.

A humanist couple’s diamonds and bright bouquet helped a worthy charity, the Fondation des Petits Frères des pauvres.

Recently rediscovered, this painting of a young soldier from the Napoleonic period had even more appeal than expected.

Gérard Depardieu’s soon-to-be-auctioned collection includes many works by Eugène Leroy (1910-2000), an artist who appealed to the actor with his unique paintings that are part figurative, part abstract but always moving.

Some 140 works—paintings, lithographs, gouaches, sculptures, and installations—look back over the pictorial and literary odyssey of this creator without borders. An initiatory journey into the mysteries of the word and the triumph of the figure.

The great artist’s portrait of a Napoleonic officer who died in the prime of life has resurfaced.

Sold under the hammer of Tessier Sarrou on Friday at Drouot, the Portrait of Charles Ferdinand Théodore de Vassinhac d'Imécourt, who died in the prime of life during the siege of Dantzig, quintupled its high estimate. The portrait had remained with the descendants of Ferdinand Imécourt's older brother until now.

Gérard Schlosser painted this canvas, no. 33 in his catalogue raisonné, in 1964, early in his career. It signaled a turning point in his work.

Various characteristically tall silhouettes, standing 6.2 feet (190 cm), watched over the opening of the Porto-Vecchio branch of Valérie Régis' Vallée de Montmorency Auction House on Sunday, August 21.