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 The blacksmith turned designer ...
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 On Saturday 07 December 2013 the auction room of Alençon (Orne) will sell an Eyema Byeri from the Fang of the first half of the twentieth century
The Fang tribe
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 Sunday 1st December at Saint-Cloud, master Guillaume Le Floc'h auctioneer will sell jewelry, watches, fashion items especially Hermes and many silverware lots. » More
 Back on the secret and unusual artist which was recently celebrated in a retrospective at the Gianadda foundation in Switzerland.
Sam Szafran is the pseudonym of Samuel Berger, born in Paris in 1934
French painter, draftsman, pastel and engraver.
Fear as a starting point ...
This son of Polish Jewish immigrants from childhood is tossed between the strict traditions of his family and the busy streets of Les Halles. It is said that the death of his father, the artist would have been given the severe tutelage of his uncle, who would one day pretending to rush into the pit of the stairs. As an outlet to escape the trauma of this event, Sam Szafram will therefore put staircase at the heart of his work.
A work that reflects the soul...
Turning staircases, spiral staircases, wave, defying the laws of perspective.
Deformation of the angles, foreshortening of perspective... Sam Szafran combines on the same plane different perspectives on plunged and cons-diving.
Monumental stairs open onto the empty, on windows, or blind walls, developing a logical of vertigo. Suspended in space by a thread, they actually lead into the depths of the soul and the painful memories of the artist's childhood.
An artist "forbidden"
The work of Sam Szafran attracts as much as surprises and disturbs his drawings sometimes appear as "inhabited" by a dark force. His name alone evokes a world, prohibited.
His large format works are sold up to 300,000 Euros.
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 Martin Parr was born in England in 1952 in a London wealthy family. Dive as a teenager by a passion for photography, he studied the subject in Manchester in the 1970s before joining the prestigious Magnum agency in 1994.
 Auctions of October were a great success in old masters and modern paintings. Low estimates that have been sprayed or realistic estimates in the light of market have been exceeded. » More
 The legend says that it was after a challenge from his son that Roy Lichtenstein performs his first painting in 1961 after a drawing of Mickey. A challenge that will take him far more than he could have imagined...
1962 a turning point in the Pop Art movement
In 1962, on the occasion of an exhibition in New York, Roy Lichtenstein and other future "stars" of the Pop Art movement such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselmann and James Reconquist are under the sunlight for the first time.
A "as artificial as possible" style
Roy Lichtenstein, then attack frontally American mass society: he illustrates in an ironic way and with a sharp eye the American dream and mocks superficial America which prefers to refer to Superman and Marilyn Monroe rather than Apollo and Aphrodite.
Comics as an inexhaustible source of inspiration
Black outlines, saturated colors, synthetic ... Lichtenstein drawings inspired by the mechanical technique of BD and its iconography in order to emerge a blast of energy and expressiveness from his works.
The history of the art version of Pop Art
In search of "exact beauty," Roy Lichtenstein recreated in his own way paintings by Picasso, Monet and Matisse as well ... Offering the Pop Art's most vibrant archetypes.
An artist in perpetual renewal
The artist, considered as the "king of pop art", has continued to develop his work. A few months before his death in 1997, he produced a series of paintings Landscapes Inspired by Chinese prints, a complete break with his previous work.
Vanessa Koutchinsky
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