Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)

This 53rd sale is the final chapter—in Paris—of Aristophil's literary collections. It consists of letters and manuscripts spanning five centuries, along with a few books.

Part of the Aristophil Collection will soon go under the hammer at a new series of sales where Boris Vian will be rubbing shoulders with Georges Bizet, Ferdinand Céline, Charlotte Corday and Saint-Exupéry.

The spirit of the “great centuries” reigns over this auction of the contents of a château. A landscape by Marinus (1808-1890) preceded a selection of often imposingly sized period furniture and decorative objects.

Ferdinand Parpan and Georges Jouve both sought purity through sculpture and ceramics.

Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau is an unclassifiable artist born in Brittany, a region he loved. He immortalized the world’s beauty without affectation and was guided by an obsession: light.

Appointed by government partners (DRAC, City of Grenoble), the former director of Triangle-Astérides (Marseille) has her work cut out for her to turn around the art center, which is in the mid of a major governance crisis. The institution has been without a director since the dismissal of Beatrice Josse last March.

At a sale in Savoy, a rediscovered lost painting by Louis Lagrenée (1725-1805) rivaled a sumptuous lotus bowl from the Qianlong period.

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.

The reign of Louis XV was a golden age for bronze fixtures and furnishings, which were marked with a crowned "C".

Under new law allowing taxpayers to donate important pieces of cultural heritage to the nation in lieu of some taxes, a Lovis Corinth portrait has been acquired by National Gallery and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. The work shows a German-Jewish gynecologist and intellectual who resisted the Nazis. (Hyperallergic)