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Each week our specialists publish an article about Art and its markets.
Antiques, painting, drawing, sculpture, furniture, fine art, porcelain, ceramic, work of art, carpet, tapestry, silver are among the subject studied.
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Since the 80s, the art market experienced a spectacular boom in
primitive art. The Surrealists and primitivism as Picasso, Brancusi,
Matisse and the Fauves opened the appetite of collectors by giving them
taste for representations out of the ordinary, taking a break with five-
century classicism.
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From the many ceramics centers that emerged in the seventeenth
century in Europe, Delft is the best known and most sought after by
collectors of ancient ceramics. Contrary to Rouen and Nevers, Delft
specialised in porcelain imitation from China and Japan brought back by
the Companie des Indes in Europe.
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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.
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The ancient Chinese furniture are rare on the market. On Wednesday
April the 8th will take place at Sotheby's Hong Kong an exceptionnal
auction. The Biegucang collection consisting of beautiful furniture
lacquer most of Ming period will go under the hammer.
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Over the past ten years the cartoons ' auction became a market
independant of the book with its own specialists and auctions catalogs.
The museums themselves are beginning to look at this art, since 2008
the Centre Georges Pompidou presents an original drawing by Hergé
from the album "The Calculus affair".
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70 000 € for a Louis XIV Boulle cabinet, 40 000 € for a small table from
Marie Antoinette. But those furniture are only copies. How to explain
those prices: the quality, the richness of their materials and their rarity.
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The Art Street, as an art movement from the New York tradition and culture associated with Hip-hop encompasses disciplines as diverse as graffiti, stencil, poster, sticker, mosaic ...
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The Louis XIII style developed in France between 1589 and 1660. It is a
major period between the Renaissance and the furniture style of Louis
the XIVth. During this period, armchairs, chairs, cupboards and cabinets
adopt forms that we know. However, Louis XIII furniture are not popular
among lovers of antique furniture.
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Two men reknown for their taste, a collection of works and objets d'art
unique, five auctions "event, a total of 373.9 million euros, hundreds of
world records ... The so called the Sale of the Century seems to have
kept all its promises ...
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Eugène Galien Laloue (1854-1941) is an impressionist painter
specializing in paintings of Paris during the Belle Epoque. Very prolific
artist, he produced some 5,000 paintings and 1,000 works in oil
representing Paris but also lanscapes.
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The name Artigas is still not very famous from art lovers. It is often
associated with painters and sculptors of Modern Art such as Dufy,
Miró, Marquet, on vases, plates glazed earthenware, or sculptures. Who
was he? What is his own work? What are his contributions to the art of
the twentieth. century? How did he participate in the revival of ceramics'
artist?
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Three hundred years ago, appaeared in Paris a new piece of furniture,
the commode or chest of drawers. It can be en tombeau, sauteuse,
Louis XV or Louis XVI, Empire or Louis-Philippe and usually opened in
front by several drawers occasionnaly hidden behind two doors.
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Organizing an auction following a succession, our specialists dicovered
among several prints, three original watercolors by the famous painter
Charles-Ferdinand de Condamy (1847-1910).
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Whether reading an auction catalog, a book or a specialized article,
amateur frequently meets the word "poincon", mark in english, attached
to a piece of silverware or jewelry. What do they mean ? Do they have
any influence on the price and value of jewelry and silverware on which
they are found ?
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« Attribué à Picasso », « de Picasso », « signé Picasso » « portant une
signature : Picasso »… are expressions that reflect many different
reality. To render these subtleties, it is important to fully understand the
language of auctions catalog.
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Chinese ceramics are probably the most beautiful in the world. Fron the
Tang first pieces to the late eighteenth century, all those works of art can
be regarded as masterpieces, each of which having is own features and
caracteristics.
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On December the 4th, the Bonhams sold at auction in London the lot
number 153 a sumptuous cabinet dating from 1895, for the record sum
of £ 2 036 000. An extraordinary bid for a piece of furniture from the late
nineteenth century.
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Last week, a diamond known as the Wittelsbach became the most
expensive gem ever sold at auction. Sold € 18.70 million by Christie's
London to the famous London jeweler, Laurence Graff, the Wittelsbach
diamond is an exception in many ways ...
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Christmas is coming and with it the search for the original gift that will be
enjoyed. Have you ever thought buying a French Empire ormolu clock?
There is something for any budget, many models and sizes.
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Born in Tours, where he received his training, Abraham Bosse (? 1604-
1676) spends most of his career in Paris. Draftsman, printmaker,
illustrator and art theorist, he is one of the major artists of the first half of
the seventeenth century.
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