Michel Dorigny (1616-1665)

Part of the eminent connoisseur’s collection will be dispersed by unusual methods. Wine-lovers are in for a treat.

Curator of a forthcoming exhibition on a pivotal moment in the medium at the Pavillon populaire in Montpellier, the chairman of the Collège international de photographie has published a book on counterculture as it is expressed today.

This major show celebrates the one-thousandth anniversary of one of France's most visited sites. Vestiges of devotion to the archangel shine in the famous Norman abbey church.

Reading the names in the catalogue – Piet Mondrian, Mikhail Larionov, Marcel Janco, Wolfgang Paalen, Enrico Prampolini, and André Kertész, with the only photographic lot – you could say that many of the key avant-gardes of the first half of the 20th century...

The sea goddess’s graceful pose emanates great serenity. This bronze is one of Michel Anguier's "best-sellers", appreciated by connoisseurs of both his time and today, who will soon be delighted to see it at auction.

Jean-Michel Frank, Adolphe Chanaux and Clément-Serveau were commissioned to create an elegant layout. The hallmark of a style.

Curiosity is an attractive failing and Michel Rullier would say no differently, as one who is now selling his nutcrackers, candle snuffers, tobacco graters, boxwood carvings, antique cutlery, pastry wheels and more.

This interior designer created a style with simple volumes and harmonious forms halfway between Le Corbusier's Jansenist purism and Ruhlmann's mannered style.

The American Weisman-Michel Collection recently purchased L'Élysée-Montmartre, painted in 1886, at the Carrère & Laborie auction in Pau for €124,800. The work will be on temporary loan at the Musée de Montmartre in Paris. Experts Élisabeth and Philippine Maréchaux identified the work in a photo of the artist's studio

Drawings by this architect who was in love with the Norman abbey dedicated to the Archangel Saint Michael, depicting it in minute detail, will soon be up for auction. They are all the more precious since they show the site as it was before its restoration.