Henri Laurens (1885-1954)

A supple, timeless beauty imbues this Femme aux bras levés (Woman with Raised Arms), illustrating work from the latter part of Henri Laurens' Cubism-influenced career.

Friends of Picasso, Georges and Suzanne Ramié rubbed shoulders with many Cubist artists. This bronze, which has remained in the ceramists’ family’s collection until today, bears witness to their close relationship with one of them, Henri Laurens.

It is an anthology of French art that will pass under the hammer of the Danish house in Copenhagen this December. In the catalog: a painting by Pierre Soulages from 1951, 2 paintings by Simon Hantaï - a first for Bruun Rasmussen - and a sculpture by Henri Laurens from the private collection of the architect Jørn Utzon.

Henri Husson is an artist whose work is rare on the market. He is the creator of this astonishing silver bowl featuring a fish whose body disappears beneath water lily leaves and two beetles.

In 1885 French artist Henri Martin discovered Venice. From this point forward the city of the Doges became a recurring theme in the painter's career, capturing its glittering colors and the majesty of its palaces.

Now acclaimed as a first-class landscape painter with a free pointillist style, Martin is still even more admired for his Symbolist compositions.

This eclectic style villa built in 1898 in the town of Agde, by the collector Emmanuel Laurens, won the call for projects from the Fondation Pays de France for the development and replanting of its listed park. €20,000 was given to the mayor of the city. The restoration project is the most important in the region.

While Henri Martin’s poetic visions of the Garonne and the Lot’s landscapes outnumber his views of Venice reflected in its canals, they were another of the post-Impressionist painter’s favorite themes—and a pretext for daring experiments.

The authentic poetry of Henri Le Sidaner's painting is more than ever visible in this view of the canal in Gisors. This town and its region inspired the artist for decades.

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.