Jean-Claude Libert (1917-1995)

Ten pre-emptions and a world record for Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. Assembled by three generations with the same passion and high standards, the collection garnered €2,136,594 during its three-day sale. An apotheosis for its owner.

With books, drawings, sundials, Normandy silverware and more, we are talking serious quantities, here: for this former President of the Bar seems to have a boundless taste for art.

Painted when the artist was not yet famous, this seaside subject puts people at the center of the composition.

This Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) painting found in an antique dealer’s collection recalls that, despite his academic reputation, he was a bold artist with no peer when it came to creating powerful images.

A landscape with willows painted shortly after the master moved to Giverny is shortly coming up at auction. The painting with its iridescent light has not been seen in public since 1948.

In cherry red, Jean Royère's iconic "Ours polaire" (Polar Bear) is even softer and more cozy, making you want to curl up on it.

An 18th-century Parisian silver shaker scattered its blessings on a sale devoted to silverware.

The outbuildings of the Château de Ferrières turned out to contain a number of rare antiquarian books that were the object of enviable scrutiny.

Claude Venard took the top six spots in a sale dedicated to French 1950s figurative painters, especially those of the Forces Nouvelles movement.

Claude-François Julliot (1727-1794) probably commissioned these two pieces of furniture stamped Joseph, which were in the Comte de Merle’s collection. They are beautiful examples of the resurgence of copper and tortoiseshell "Boulle" marquetry early in the Louis XVI period.