Maurice Estève (1904-2001)

A 1982 watercolor by Maurice Estève, a master of postwar French abstraction, will headline a selection of 20th-century art.

Outdated and unsuited, the institution dedicated to the work of the French painter Maurice Estève (1904-2001) will no longer receive visitors until further notice. It could reopen in 2025 after being brought up to standards, before being integrated into the future municipal museum center, planned for 2030 (Jda).

Bathsheba, whose name means "daughter of the oath", was the wife of Uriah the Hittite but later married King David after he killed his first spouse. French artist Maurice Denis, the founder of the Nabi movement, painted her many times. In this oil on...

The Nabi Symbolist updated the depiction of the Annunciation by setting it in 1914.

The Swiss auction house is offering a group of works by Arp, Poliakoff, Delaunay, Fontana and Zao Wou-ki, which come from Maurice Denis's family. A remarkable pedigree that also stands out for this intimate painting by the artist.

Maurice Verbaet has been collecting works by Belgian artists for 50 years. He was interested in the “classics” before turning to eclectic art from between 1945 and 1975.

Maurice Brianchon, the painter of poetic reality, conjures the smell of the sea with this depiction of summer holidaymakers in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.  

The Green Christ, certainly "the most radical of works" by Maurice Denis, enters the collections of the Musée d'Orsay, enriching a collection of Nabi and post-impressionist paintings, which is the most comprehensive in the world. The 1890 work (21 x 15 cm, 8.2 x 5.9 in) was never shown during the artist's lifetime.

Bringing in $6M overall, the popular auction featured Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s First Long Suit, the cover of Saturday Evening Post in 1937, which fetched $615,000 beating its estimate. Maurice Sendak’s 1988 25th anniversary painting for Where the Wild Things Are garnered $212,500 – beating his previous record.

Utrillo’s Avenue de Versailles et la Tour Eiffel, c. 1921 sold for the sum at a sale on April 17, organized by Maître Jean-Pierre Besch in Cannes. Utrillo (1883-1955), son of artist Suzanne Valadon, was a member of the École de Paris and one of the few well-known Montmartre painters who was actually born there.