Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955)

Designed to illustrate the cover of a collection of poems by critic and poet Pierre Lecuire, this gouache was the most sought-after object in his wife's estate.

The musée d’Art moderne de Paris (MAM) traces the development of an unclassifiable painter whose colors collide and intensify each other. there are many surprises, including nearly 50 works being seen for the first time.

This 1949 painting highlights a beautiful chapter in the fruitful friendship between an artist-prince and a poet-publisher while providing a glimpse of the moment de Staël came into his own.

Nicolas de Staël is one of the founding French artists of abstraction, so the sale of one of his Compositions is bound to attract attention.

On November 6, the first part of Pierre Lecuire's library went under the hammer. For this second sale, first editions rubbed shoulders with drawings and modern paintings.

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

Probably commissioned at the time of her first marriage, this portrait of Marie Thérèse Jacquet de la Bussières by Largillière is part of a group of paintings made around 1700 by Nicolas de Largillière.

Nicola Vassell's new space in Chelsea is one of the rare Black-owned galleries in New York.

The post-war artists featured in this auction catalog sought to transcend matter.

On Saturday 5 February at Corbas, near Lyon (Bérard-Péron OVV), €7,000/9,000 will be needed to walk aways with Paysage au crépuscule avec Crocus et Smilax (Landscape at dusk with Crocus and Smilax) attributed to Jean Lemaire, known as Lemaire-Poussin (1598-1659).