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Rhino horn is a simple cluster of keratin, hair to make it simple! Yet,
carved, especially in the form of cut, it turns heads and confirms the
excellent health of Asian art market.
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Laurent Hache and Cedric Henon, and the whole team of experts and
collaborators of Authenticité, offer you their best wishes for 2015.
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If today New York is the capital of the auctions of modern and
contemporary paintings, London remains the temple of Old Masters
painting as just illustrate by the auction house Sotheby's at its vacation
on 3 December which saw an oil on canvas by Turner sold for £30,3
million with an estimated 15 to 20 million pounds.
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At the time in the history of the market, prices of contemporary art have
never been as high and those of ancient arts have never been lower. An
update on the situation.
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Saturday, November 29 will be auctioned at Blaye, under the hammer of
Maitre Guignard, with the assistance of our expertise and specialists, an
exceptional pair of sculptures in blue marble, Roy and Myrra, signed
Georges Gardet.
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Many deities have metamorphosed to achieve their ends. In all, the
prize certainly return to Zeus. To win Danae, the god turns into a golden
rain. It is precisely the story that tells a sculpture that will be offered for
sale on October 25th.
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On October 5, 2014, auctioneers Guillaume Le Floch, in collaboration
with our specialists organizes, in St. Cloud, a important auction of old
masters and modern drawings and paintings, objects art and furniture
with a particular highlight on five lots by or in the style of Gabriel Viardot
(Lots 208, 209, 210, 211 and
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Thursday, June 12, Art Valorem auctioneer sold paintings, jewelry,
furniture and objets d'art in collaboration with our cabinet d'expertise for
furniture and objets d'art. Some great prices were at the rendez-vous.
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Since its founding in 1839, Patek Philippe continues to perpetuate the
traditional Geneva watchmaking.
The total creative autonomy of the brand allows it, according to the
vision of its founders Antoine Norbert de Patek (1839) and Adrien
Philippe (1845), to design, develop and manufacture itself what all the
experts
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For long under valued and under estimated by the market and
museums,
Gaston Chaissac is now recognized as a major artist of the twentieth
century.
He was born in 1910 in Avallon of a shoemaker father. In 1934, he
moved to Paris as a shoemaker with his brother. This is where he met
the painters Otto Freundlich and
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The French Masters Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille,
Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier are definitely on the rise among
bidders worldwide.
5 French designers have achieved alone 8 of the best of this results at
auction.
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Sunday, May 18, the auction house Guillaume Le Floc'h, in collaboration
with Authenticité specialists for furniture and works of art, will auction
at St. Cloud old masters and modern paintings, animal bronzes and
furniture and works of art.
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11 and March 12, Sotheby's in partnership with SVV Artcurial auction
dispersed in three vacations, the collection of Felix Marcilhac, figure of
the art market, antiques dealer and recognized and undisputed expert in
Art Deco.
Collected over the past 40 years and consisting of works of the greatest
artists and creators
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From 1954 to 1958, Ingo Maurer studied the graphic arts in Munich. He
went to work a few years in New York and California before founding
his studio Design M in Munich in 1963 and devote himself to the design
of light units.
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is probably the most famous French
sculptors of the second half of the nineteenth century and early
twentieth century. His eponymous museum deals with the highlighting
and protection of his work.
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Sunday, February 9 SVV Guillaume Le Floc'h, assisted by our Cabinet
of
expertise for furniture and works of art, will auction old masters,
modern and contemporary paintings, furniture and works of art from the
XVII, XVIII and nineteenth centuries as well as ceramics.
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It is the reading of Out of Africa at 17 that comes radically overturn the
lives of Peter Beard. He falls deeply love with Africa.
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All the team of Authenticité joins me to wish you a great 2014. This
week, we take an interest to the bonheur du jour, feminine piece of
furniture in essence. It appears in 1760 in the topology of French
furniture and is characterized by its refined and elegant lines.
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The blacksmith turned designer ...
Jean Prouvé began his career as a steelworker but quickly reveals an
incredible talents of architect and furniture designer.
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Sold just over 200,000 Euros at Artcurial last October, another sold for
£55,000 at Christie's London last week, gold-inlaid are sought after by
amateurs and are the pride of the largest collections in particular
Rothschild one.
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