Simon Hantaï (1922-2008)

There were various aspects to this classic sale, but a memory in blue by Simon Hantaï fetched the highest bid.

The Louis Vuitton Foundation kept its promise that the exhibition celebrating the centenary of the birth of Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) would be an event.

The gallery will inaugurate its representation of the French-Hungarian late abstractionist with an exhibition titled "LES NOIRS DU BLANC, LES BLANCS DU NOIR"  in Le Bourget, displaying works from 1961-1997, at the height of Hantaï’s experimentations with the pliage technique. His auction record stands at $4.43 million.

On the occasion of the major retrospective celebrating Simon Hantaï's 100th birthday at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Artprice takes note of a considerable upturn in the market for abstract artists.

It is an anthology of French art that will pass under the hammer of the Danish house in Copenhagen this December. In the catalog: a painting by Pierre Soulages from 1951, 2 paintings by Simon Hantaï - a first for Bruun Rasmussen - and a sculpture by Henri Laurens from the private collection of the architect Jørn Utzon.

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An incomparable witness of the Bigouden people on the threshold of major changes, here the painter delivers a powerfully modern and sensual composition.

Perhaps the more appealing of the two drawings from the Marquis of Lagoy's collection up for sale is not Rubens' project for a vignette for Franciscus Aguilon’s Opticorum Libri Sex, but this work by Simon Vouet.

With the acquisition of forty-six prints by Irving Penn and three thousand contemporary books, the former curator of the Tate, now director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris, unveils his strategy.

Over the decades, the former president of the French media group Vivendi has assembled a miscellaneous collection dominated by photography. President of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris since December 2017, Jean-François Dubos is also a patron.