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Outsider Art Fair: can art brut mix with contemporary art?

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15 October 2019 - 05:05

The Louvre decides against obligatory online pre-reservation

15 October 2019 - 02:46

Millon to host first art auction dedicated solely to Vietnamese fine art at Drouot

15 October 2019 - 12:40

Inseon Kim announced as Artistic Director of Jeju Biennale 2020

15 October 2019 - 12:01

Musja, private museum of contemporary art, opens in Rome

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Jean-Claude Delauney Collections

With books, drawings, sundials, Normandy silverware and more, we are talking serious…

Wednesday 23 October

Beaussant Lefèvre

Make way for a masterpiece!

The reappearance of this portrait of a great early seventeenth-century statesman – Paul…

Wednesday 20 November

De Baecque et Associés

Art Deco lacquer

Exoticism is the order of the day with this lacquer panel by Gaston Suisse. The interior…

Saturday 19 October

Michel Darmancier et Olivier Clair

A bee in a china shop

Rarity and originality: two sizeable assets for this Sèvres soft paste porcelain in the…

Friday 18 October

Leadingfigures

Kamel Mennour, still ahead of the game

For 20 years, the Parisian has pursued a single goal: making his contemporary art gallery the best while making occasional forays…

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Appealing post-war design

In a catalogue seesawing between the 16 th century and the 1980s, the Fifties shone with…

Result €146,000

Xavier Wattebled

A French record for the Spanish artist del Mazo

Velasquez's son-in-law, Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, fairly inconspicuous in the…

Result €126,000

Shepard Fairey at home at Drouot

A triumphant return for one of the most influential urban artists of the moment, with…

Result €45,500

Drouot Estimations

Fang ancestor and St John

African and religious art highlighted Gabon and the Middle Ages.

Result €300,000

ArtMarket

Unseen 2019: good vibes on the Amstel

Half-fair, half-festival, Unseen has been a favourite with new photography lovers since its inception. In 2019, how is the event viewed now that it has a new director?

Empire furniture

A style described by Gustave Flaubert as "imposing and diplomatic" in L’Éducation sentimentale.

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Jean-Claude Delauney Collections

Make way for a masterpiece!

A bee in a china shop

A break in the tribal art market

Artandculture

Multiplying Mona Lisas

Bacon's reading: the dangers of the too-exclusive

Lacquer: a constantly developing expertise

Tony Cragg at Boboli

Vaux-le-Vicomte: halfway between the public and private sectors

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