While the news and the market have the Street Art on an ascending wave such as in Paris, London and New York, there is an place where urban art has simply not right to exist Singapore. Any artist caught in full realization of a fresco on the walls of the city is sure to get a ticket for a stay in prison, without any recourse. For the record, a Swiss artist, who rose to the challenge of painting on a train a year ago, was sentenced to imprisonment without the intervention of the Swiss authorities. The punishment is disproportionate, but we must remember that Singapore is a dictatorship and that everyone's life is under control.

 

 

A true artistic involvement

 

In this context, the exhibition "Off the Wall" which just closed its doors on November 26 in Singapore takes a very special meaning. In addition to the proposed meeting between 9 artists from France (including an American, Sonic) and eight Singaporean artists, this is a forum to give this art a force to express on canvas. Creativity is not so far restrained and works explode originality fueled by a strong cultural heritage - despite a global flood and a Western model reference in the development of the city. The ancestral grounds (carp up

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On 7 December, the SVV Valorem Art, in collaboration with our antique furniture and works of art cabinet d’expertise, will auction modern paintings and drawings by Picabia, Paul Jouve and Tom Wesselmann, and jewelry, watches, silverware, and sculptures.

A brief overview of what you can afford with a budget of 300 to 5000 Euros.

 

From 300 to 500 Euros

 

Amateurs will have a wide choice.

 

Among the paintings, the Lot 12 (300/ 500 euros), an oil on canvas signed and dated by René Levrel, View of Toulon, the Mourillon.

 

In the jewelry section, the pair of earrings (Lot 165) Creole gadrooned gold, embellished with a diamond chevron is expected around 300-350 Euros. A gift of the best effect.

 

Main illustration.

 

Under number 236, you will discover a silver set of 12 fruit knives with mother of pearl handle; blades and ferrules are in vermeil. The 12 knives are estimated from 300 to 400 Euros.

 

 

From 500 to 1500 Euros

 

Estimated 800 to 1000 Euros, the pair of ormolu candelabra with four light, high of 52 centimeters is quite affordable. It was realized in the nineteenth century and in Louis XVI style. A pair of late eighteenth century would be estimated 5 to 10 times more.

 

Note also, lot 298 (1200/1500 Euros) which is a tapestry of royal manufactory of Aubusson woven in the second half of the eighteenth century. Our verdure decorated with pagoda and birds is not too large (250 x 212 cm) and will marry any interior.

 

 

From 1500 to 3000 Euros

 

Lot 218 is an important sterling silver menagere by the famous silversmith Henin. Weighing 4.270 kg, comprising 81 pieces, it allows you to easily accommodate your family and friends for the holidays. The whole is enclosed in a case of black leather. It is estimated from 2000 to 2500 Euros well below the equivalent new.

 

A set of six chairs (lot 295), four armchairs en cabriolet and a pair of chairs similar to the armchairs will attract lovers of 18^th century classical furniture. This set is elegantly molded and date from the Louis XV period. The woods were redecorated in cream. Estimated 1500 to 2000 Euros, this series will allow you to furnish your living room for a very reasonable sum.

 

 

From 3000 to 5000 Euros

 

We selected two objects, a sculpture and a clock.

 

Honoré Daumier (lot 287) is represented with a bronze executed by the famous Valsuani in 1965. "Coqueterie" is a dark green patinated bronze. It is only recently that this figure was rediscovered, it is reasonably estimated from 4000 to 5000 Euros. It includes all the talent of caricaturist of Daumier.

 

Finally, let's look at a clock (lot 301) as a highly original in its model and in the authors of the movement. The movement is supported by two baluster columns with porcelain plates decorated with antique in the style of Wedgwood. The movement for its part is due to the combination of two families of the Swiss watchmakers Robert and Courvoisier. It can be dated from the signature of the dial circa 1800.

 

 

These few lots are just some of the sale with the lowest estimates turn around 50 euros. Whether you're amateurs or just curious please go to the viewing and auction.

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Since the creation of the porcelain manufactory of Sevres under Louis XV with the support of the Marquise de Pompadour, the king passed large orders.

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Honore Daumier, this name evokes for many of you a caricaturist of society and politics under Louis Philippe and the Second Empire. But he was also a true artist of his time both engraver and lithographer, painter and sculptor.

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The 26 and 27 October, Sotheby's Paris in association with Piasa organizes the auction of the collection Fabius Frères. Over 400 works will be sold for an estimation of 9 to 14 million euros.

 

Sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Francois Carpeaux, furniture by Grohé, Dufin and Diehl, works of art by Theodore Deck or Maurice Marinot, drawings and paintings of the nineteenth century by Jean Beraud or Aldophe Yvon. The viewing for the exceptional collection Fabius is opened since the 21th at the Galerie Charpentier.

 

In sculpture, the collection is the largest nineteen century collection ever sold at auction. Two major artists - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) and Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875) - transform the sales event. Note particularly the large marble group of Daphnis and Chloe by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, estimated between 1 million to 1 500 000 €. The sale also includes 51 bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye with Theseus and the Minotaur, from the collections of the King of Portugal and estimated 200 000 to 300 000 €.

 

 

The selection includes some classic eighteenth century furniture and nineteenth most exuberant creations and classic furnishings from Louis XIV to the Empire style. Decorative arts, ceramics and glass are represented by a wide variety of pieces, including unique works by Theodore Deck, Eugene and Maurice Collinot Marinot.

 

 

The history of the collection dates back to Elie Fabius, who has a prestigious gallery in Paris in 1882. Passionate about Napoleon and Lafayette, historical memories and sculptures by Carpeaux and Barye, Fabius put the nineteenth century style in fashion. The work of Elie Fabius was continued by the first of his son and then by his grandson, son Francis, brother of Laurent who died in 2006.

 

To know more : www.sothebys.com

Illustrations :

Illustration 1 : lot 178 - Exceptionnelle paire de vases Médicis, deuxième grandeur en porcelaine dure de Sèvres, l’un daté 1811, peints et signés par Jean-François Robert. À décor polychrome sur fond écaille sur l’un de l’Empereur devant les coteaux de Bellevue et de Meudon, l’autre de l’Empereur et Marie-Louise en calèche devant le château de Saint-Cloud ; au revers, deux griffons affrontés autour d’une vasque flammée et encadrés de rinceaux et palmettes en or, guirlandes de grappes de raisins sur le col et frise de feuillage en dorure, socles carrés en bronze doré. Hauteur : 66 cm. Estimation : 500 000-800 000 €

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Carmontelle was a fine artist specialized in drawings and watercolors. He organized the Duke of Orleans, future Philippe-Egalite, parties’ and was an inventor of genius. Very famous in the second part of the 18^th century is fame did not cross the mid 19^th century.

Yet fans and collectors, starting with the Duke of Aumale, make no mistake about his talent s his auction result can attest.

Let’s discover the artist and his work.

 

His beginning

 

Louis de Carmontelle or Carmontelle whose real name was Louis Carrogis was born in Paris in 1717 from a father shoemaker. After studying drawing and geometry, he became an engineer at the age of 23. He then entered the service of the Duke of Luynes at Dampierre Castle as a tutor in mathematics and drawings of the children of the Duke.

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Medieval Art has done very well her this year. Several pieces have attracted the interest of French and international collectors in particular during two auctions by PIASA (Paris) in January and June.

 

Some surprises as the world record of a fifteenth century Burgundy walnut and gold polychrome apostle, traditionally attributed to the altarpiece of Theuley (Haute-Saône), which fetched to 202,000 Euros, breaking the final result of another statuette from the same altarpiece sold for 190,000 Euros in 2007 in a countryside auction. Both sculptures were expertise ​​by Laurence Fligny who is the specialist in the field in charge of those two sales.

 

 

Another surprising result for a small sculpture by Leonardo Kern (1588-1662) depicting two children playing, one straddling the other, it reached the peaks of 165, 000 Euros. It was a happy discovery for vendors who could not imagine owning a small masterpiece of this German artist who is very popular on the Germanic market.

 

 

The Italian art with a seven panels painted ceiling from the mid-fifteenth century, depicting characters in flower buttons with a very handsome young knight holding a sword and a banner. This series attracted many bidders and was finally sold to the trade for 80,000 Euros.

 

 

Our next auction, actually in preparation, will focus on fine furniture including a beautiful and rare cassone, an armoire hiding a painted cabinet probably from the Loire Valley or Burgundy's second third of the seventeenth century. Note also in this sale an exceptional capital, sophisticated interpretation of the Corinthian one with acanthus leaves of great finesse. The quality of the stone, very fine-grained limestone and style suggest that this capital could come from the cloister of Notre Dame en Vaux at Chalons-en-Champagne.

 

The Mediaval Art is specific as it combines various works of art ranging from furniture to sculpture and through many techniques and materials as diverse as wrought iron, ivory, enamel painted or champlevé, wood, stone or glass. We can visit the whole of Europe through the productions of Germanic, Italian, Iberian, Flemish, English artists. In addition, many of these works have retained a strong spiritual presence that continues to exercise their fascination today.

 

Our next meeting will be on December the 2nd with PIASA at Drouot, with over 200 lots ranging from low estimates to top for some major masterpieces of medieval or Renaissance art.

 

Laurence FLIGNY

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