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 Roberto Matta-Echaurren (1911-2002) said Matta is one of the leading painters of the surrealist movement. His production was exceptional in the link he established between his paintings, his personal history and history.
His debut
Matta studied architecture at Santiago. In 1933, he worked in the studio of Le Corbusier in Marseille. He continues his European tour throughout Spain, Scandinavia and England, where he met the major figures of the art of the first half of the 20 th century as Henry Moore and Rene Magritte.
Courtesy of SARL Francois Léopold Touati
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 From 86 to 16 000 euros for a Gallé lamp, what a gap ! Our fine arts specialists try to give you some advice on what to look at before to purchase some Gallé work of art. » More
 From £200 to £120 000, the prices of his works are vary wide. Major player in the Figuration Libre of the 1980s, Combas is always an artist popular of the French contemporary art market.
Good news: his drawings can be bought. You can indeed "buy Combas" for £250. Autographed in marker drawings are numerous. Made by the artist in dedication of an exhibition catalog, they often end up cut and sold separately. Note that they are not a good investment for you.
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 On désigne par bronze animalier une sculpture en bronze dont le sujet principal est un animal. Le premier âge d’or du bronze animalier date de la première moitié du XIXème siècle. » More
 Cartier, the name evokes, for each of us, luxury, jewelry, gold, precious stones and watches. More than the story of a personality, Cartier is a family in which four successive generations perpetuated and expanded the art of jewelry and watches.
Jewelers of the Kings and Queens
In 1847, Cartier was born with the acquisition by Louis-Francois Cartier (1819-1904) of the workshop of his master jeweler. Man of talent, he moved in 1853, place du Palais Royal and in 1859, Boulevard des Italiens.
That same year, Cartier sells jewelry to Princess Mathilde and Empress Eugenie becoming supplier of the Imperial court.
Quickly, Cartier became the supplier of major European and Asian courts and American millionaires. » More
 King of the auctions, Felix Ziem remains a relatively unknown artist to the public. He knew a quick notoriety and unusual fact: one of his paintings enters in the Louvre during his lifetime.
Our artist born in Burgundy in 1821 and studied architecture in Dijon and began a career as an architect in the Marseille region.
His meeting with the Duke of Orleans, eldest son of King Louis-Philippe marked a turning point in his life; in fact the latter is interested in Ziem drawings which prompted him to open a drawing school.
In 1840, he discovered Martigues and in 1842 he moved to Italy he visited until 1847. It is especially Venice, which influence his painting.
Back in France, he split his time between Paris and Fontainebleau forest where he met Theodore Rousseau and Jean-François Millet. If like his friends, he painted pastoral landscapes and scenes of everyday life, his paintings cannot be linked to the Barbizon school. It should be noted that this production has hardly the favors of buyers and collectors of the artist.
Meanwhile, he painted views of Venice and the Bosphorus in the Orientalist style but does not relate fully to this movement. His views are imaginary and based on drawings he brought back from his travels. Orientalist paintings are distinguished by the horizon placed very low as well as the importance given to the vertical lines which set him apart from its contemporaries.
Ziem died in 1911 leaving behind approximately 10,000 paintings, oils on canvas and oil on panel. Despite the success he met during his lifetime, he did not bind with other painters of his time and did not form student.
Stranger to the great artistic movements of the late nineteenth century, his paintings continue to be the dreamed Orient. » More
 Of all the major sculptors of his time, Charles Cordier (1827-1905) is certainly one whose style and art stand out the most.
Cordier enters in 1846 to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1847 joined the studio of François Rude, one of the great masters of sculpture in the middle of the nineteenth century. His encounter with a former Sudanese slave now a model acted as a revelation for our young sculptor. In 15 days he executes his bust marking a decisive turning point for his work. We are then in the midst of the abolition of slavery and the beginnings of ethnography.
Charles Cordier's mission is to sculpt the diversity of human beings. To do this, he traveled to Africa and the Maghreb to capture to the best and the most realistic way possible traits of the different peoples.
His busts stand by the accuracy of the sculpture on which the hair is done with scissors. He developed a new technique in which he mixes materials, marble, onyx, bronze, gold and silver but also colored enamels and precious stones. Thus, his busts are characterized by polychrome allowing to make it the closest of the character of his subject.
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