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Figurative art from van Goyen to Combas and the inescapable Bernard Buffet
Henri Lebasque, painting the zest for life
The Gilles Labrosse collection: fashion throughout the ages
Achille Laugé: Cailhau in perspective
Picasso as a modeller
Olympism and its universal values
The only extant drawing for the Olympic flag project, this genuine museum piece should galvanise the sports world. A work symbolising the spirit of…
Impressions of the sun filled Mediterranean
Marquet, Renoir, Derain, Valtat, Camoin, César and Picasso: all these artists appearing in this sale had the same special bond with the South of France…
The naturalism of Art Nouveau
The master of Art Nouveau designed this prestigious lamp, marking the start of the fruitful collaboration between the Daum glassworks and the Majorelle…
Vespasian's white horse by Jean Limosin
Jean Limosin, a Renaissance enameller from a prominent Limoges family, produced this plate, whose magnificent workmanship on gold jeweller's foil with…
Jean-Baptiste Greuz: fresh air for baby
Here Jean-Baptiste Greuze illustrated a common 18 th -century practice: sending newborns to a wet-nurse in the countryside for fresh air.
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Figurative art from van Goyen to Combas and the inescapable…
This 1955 work by Bernard Buffet belongs to a series of around 10…
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Portrait of a young follower of Winckelmann
Under the watchful eye of the master Johan Joachim Winckelmann,…
Fascinating artefacts from the Marchesas Islands
Essentially sacred artefacts, a pair of stirrups enabled combatants on stilts to fight each other in honour of the gods and the departed. In Louviers,…
Millet: the first steps of an accomplished artist
Jean-François Millet's art lay in transforming the everyday into the everlasting. Inspired by his daily life in Barbizon, this intimate family scene…
François Desportes and earthly delights
This still life by François Desportes making its auction debut illustrates the influence of the Regent, a bon vivant and aesthete, barely a year after…
A choice selection from the Bouruet-Aubertot collection
It is sometimes said that objects reveal their owners' personalities. This seems to be the case with the three hundred works of art from the estate…