Luca Pignatelli (Né en 1962)

Italian artist Luca Pignatelli is the spotlight of the Le Floc'h OVV’s sale devoted to the 20th century on Sunday the 11th in Saint-Cloud.

The Mystical Marriage by the Piedmontese painter, and the Cain and Abel by the Neapolitan Baroque painter Giordano, led the auction on Friday, selling for €211,200 and €192,000 respectively under Ader's hammer. 

If there is a collection that must not be missed under any circumstances, it is the one put together decades ago by James Bismuth, an agricultural commodities broker, who died last December at the age of 89.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, which began construction in March 2018, announced on Tuesday that construction delays will push the museum’s projected opening from 2023 to 2025. The Museum’s Director explained that supply chain issues exacerbated by the pandemic are among the causes. (Artnews)

An imminent return in situ for a Venus by Cranach the Younger with the princely pedigree of Anatole Demidoff, which was first sold at the Hôtel Drouot 159 years ago.

For the second year in a row, the Parisian gallery Lucas Ratton will open a summer branch on la place des Lices, at the heart of Saint-Tropez, from beginning of June. The young gallerist is the heir of Maurice and Charles Ratton, top dealers and great African art specialists of the beginning of the XXth century.

The filmmaker behind Star Wars and Mellody Hobson, CEO of Ariel Investment, have named the inaugural director and CEO of their museum of narrative art, currently being built in Los Angeles: Sandra Jackson-Dumont, who has been chair of education and public programmes at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2014.

Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral boasts a stunning historiated pavement whose earliest parts date back to the 14th century. It is particularly fragile and visible only briefly on rare occasions.

This Conversion of Saint Paul by Lucas Cranach the Younger has a counterpart in Nuremberg but it differs in significant respects.

Luca Giordano, one of the 17th century’s leading Neapolitan painters, influenced many artists in Italy, where the theme of Susanna and the Elders became a common one in the late 16th century.