This remarkable and rare oil-study of trees was made by Cézanne during his last years in the countryside of Aix-en-Provence, a few kilometres from the Montagne Sainte-Victoire. He was then living in seclusion from the art world, painting and living out his days in the familiarity of his area. Among all the topics approached by … Continue reading « Paul Cézanne »
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Jean-Achille Benouville
The present lovely work is a rediscovery combined with a very distinguished provenance: the Earl of Spencer’s collection. Marie-Madeleine Aubrun mentioned the work in her catalogue but without knowing the location. This sheet served as the model for a painting presented at the Salon in 1864, under the no. 138, and then bought the same … Continue reading « Jean-Achille Benouville »
George Morren
This work is the most spectacular and most celebrated of George Morren’s neo-impressionist oeuvre. The piece is equally among the greatest specimens of the pointillism movement in Belgium in the early 1890’s. In his early twenties, Morren presented this work at his first salon, which was organized in Antwerp by the Association pour l’Art in … Continue reading « George Morren »
Alphonse-Henri Périn
Born in Reims in 1798, Alphonse Périn studied in Paris in the atelier of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, where he met in 1817 his life-long best companion, the painter Victor Orsel. During this period, Périn dedicated himself to the genre of historical landscapes, notably close to the master Jean-Victor Bertin, himself a former pupil of Pierre-Henri Valenciennes. … Continue reading « Alphonse-Henri Périn »
Master Prints
Selection of fine Old Master and Modern prints 23 – 27 October 2018 35 East 67th Street, New York
Prints & Drawings
Selection of Fine Prints & Drawings 35 East 67th Street, New York (2nd floor) Opening Day: October 23, 11am – 8pm Exhibition: October 24-26, 11 am – 6pm Thurday & Friday, open until 8pm
Frieze Masters
Regent’s Park, London Stand G03
Alexandre Graverol
A very fine sheet depicting Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) at the Broussais Hospital in Paris, where he died in January 1896. For the last ten years of his life, Verlaine spent long stays in various hospitals, totalizing more than four years. He suffered from a very painful arthritis in the knees (hence the walking stick on … Continue reading « Alexandre Graverol »
Gilles-François-Joseph Closson
Regarded now as one of the most fascinating landscape painters of the early Belgian scene of 19th century, Gilles-François-Joseph Closson remained almost unknown until the revival of a group of his works at the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Liège in the 1980s, and the discovery, in 1994, of an ensemble, in private hands, of canvas … Continue reading « Gilles-François-Joseph Closson »
Charles Laval
The present and so-entitled Le Christ noir is certainly one of the most dramatic and key works by Charles Laval, at the end of his life, that occurred a year later. In a way, this sets Laval’s testament, encapsulating his singular personality, as well as an homage to his master, Léon Bonnat, and to his … Continue reading « Charles Laval »
Gustav Klimt
This stunning work, dating from the earliest time of Gustav Klimt’s career, depicts an elderly gentleman wearing a white frilled neck ruff seen from behind in part profile. It is in fact a modello or preparatory sketch for a figure in his Theatre of Shakespeare on the ceiling of the Burgtheater in Vienna. However, the … Continue reading « Gustav Klimt »
Louis-Amable Crapelet
A beautiful architype of the seductive orientalism by Louis-Amable Crapelet. Without sacrificing the topographic exactitude of the scene, the artist achieved to depict a strong sensation of beauty and exoticism of the present Isis temple in Philae. It is very efficient and powerful, a balance between idealistic landscapes and a true depiction of historical sites. … Continue reading « Louis-Amable Crapelet »
Salon du Dessin
Palais Brongniart (stand 11) 28, Place de la Bourse, 75002 Paris
Catalogue 19
TEFAF – Maastricht
MECC, FORUM 100 (stand 717) 6229 GT Maastricht
Didier Petit de Meurville
Didier Petit de Meurville – painter, art aficionado and prominent collector of antiques and religious art – had many talents, which he seemed to exercise simultaneously and successfully. Born in Haiti in 1793, when the political climate was tumultuous, Petit de Meurville ventured to Lyon and began his career as a silk manufacturer. Soon, the … Continue reading « Didier Petit de Meurville »
Jules Chéret
A ground-breaking figure in the history of advertising, Jules Chéret, dubbed ‘Watteau de la Rue’, was world famous for his flamboyant poster art, which decorated the Parisian streetscape during the second half of the 19th century. In contrast with his colourful, dancing nymphs that covered posters, spectacle announcements, book covers, and advertisements, this small painting … Continue reading « Jules Chéret »
Xavier Mellery
The present panel is a softly rendered, intimate oil painting by Xavier Mellery, presumably showing the first communion of his daughter Lucy and that circumstance could be the reason why, until recently, this work was kept by the heirs. The figure looks very close to the girl depicted in an oil painting kept at the … Continue reading « Xavier Mellery »
Jean-Pierre Dantan
Destined to serve the memory of the model in the form of true sacralisation and an affirmation of the sitter’s social rank, Jeune adolescent de la famille Berthelot is a beautiful example of the French romantic sculpture. Introduced in the beginning of the 19th c., the bust became a means to limit movement, expression and … Continue reading « Jean-Pierre Dantan »
Hermann Wöhler
Hermann Wöhler work is one the best rediscoveries made from the German art of the 1920’s. Die Sonne is part of the virtual series Der Paraklet. Sieben Bilder aus den Tagen des Retters un zum Gedächtnis an den frühe Heimgegangenen [The Paraclete. Seven images from the Days of the Saviours to the memory of the … Continue reading « Hermann Wöhler »
