Last minute, at Christie’s…for a great sale

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Gustave Caillebotte, Le Petit bras de la Seine près d’Argenteuil – €800,000-1,200,000$

You have until this afternoon (Tuesday 30) at 4 pm to see the spectacular private collection of  “From Caillebotte to Calder“, constituted by a successful Parisian over the last forty years and auctioned at 5 pm at Christie’s by Cécile Verdier. I was very surprised to discover a few musical Dufy very similar to those exhibited at Musée de Montmartre in the magnificent “Dufy’s Paris” show which is waiting to open. But also to find a remarkable Caillebotte, “Le Petit bras de la Seine à Argenteuil” estimated at 800 000 to 1 200 000€ and promised to the future exhibition in Martigny in June. There are many Montmartre scenes by Maurice Utrillo, abstract paintings by Poliakoff, and two ravishing Schuffenecker, 70 lots altogether in this sale and more by Sanyu and Poliakoff,  later in April and in June.Read More

Easter is chocolate time!

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L’instant Cacao is particularly inventive with its fish balloons at 3 rue des Petits Champs

Sales of chocolate are so important for Easter in France that chocolate shops have been called “essential shops” like hairdressers and bookstores in the new lockdown law. I just read in Guide Lebey‘s newsletter, the guide of food and drinks which is sent out on Fridays, about a young chocolate creator, L’Instant Cacao at 3 rue des Petits Champs. The young Marc Chinchole is a true passionate and he makes everything out of a tiny kitchen. But you also have all the classical shops like Jadis et Gourmande and Marcolini or Alain Ducasse. Most of them deliver so don’t wait to order, Easter is around the corner.Read More

Spring has arrived at Naïla de Monbrison

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Rose Morant, Necklace “Jardin des Plantes” with jade, rubis, tourmaline, quartz, lacquer, gold leaf and cristal

Naïla de Montbrison has been exhibiting artists’ jewelry since 1987 and her enthusiasm and the youthful style of her pieces are unchanged. This new exhibition  of six artists can be seen by appointment: it is full of spring colors and vegetal influences. The Greek sculptor Corinna Coutouzi, Delphine Nardin, Violaine Febvret, Hong Kong based Rose Morant, Swiss artist Gilles Jonemann, Juliette Polac, are all quite enchanting.Read More

Amos Gitaï and Yitzhak Rabin, a 25 year long story

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Amos Gitaï and cowriter Marie-José Sanselme in the exhibition at BnF

It was incredibly poignant to meet film director Amos Gitaï at Bibliothèque Nationale de France this week. A small group of journalists were invited to visit the new exhibition of his archives on Yitzhak Rabin‘s assassination on November 4, 1995. Films, interviews, a play and a book, and numeric archives, the result of 25 years of research, are being bequeathed by the great film director to the BnF in Paris. The day before the general elections in Israel where Benjamin Netanyahu was -again- running, Gitaï was particularly eloquent and political. It was a profoundly moving moment. The exhibition in the main alley, can be seen by all readers of the library, which remains open for students and readers. And most of these students will never have heard of Rabin who died on Shabath evening, November 4, 1995, many years before they were born.Read More

At Suzanne Tarasiève, New figuration German painters have a ball

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Benjamin Katz photographs Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Per Kirkeby and Jörg Immendorff in Köln, 1987

In 1987, five German painters met at Michael Werner’s gallery in Köln to work together. Belgian photographer Benjamin Katz was there to shoot them individually and as a group. The extravagant Suzanne Tarasiève is exhibiting the wunderkinds of German New Figuration movement in her gallery of 7 rue Pastourelle in the Marais, and the show is absolutely stunning. During the semi confinement, the gallery can be visited by appointment. Read More

The last happy event before being lockdowned again

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Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves with his new book on the pleasures of food

“The only good news this Thursday” mentioned the invitation to Pierre Alain Challier’s gallery at the very time that Jean Claude Fasquelle, a giant of publishing with Grasset, was being buried at Saint Germain des Prés and just before Manuel Canovas, the fabric designer’s funeral. And it was to be a literary event with lots of booze… around Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves who publishes “Petit Eloge de la gourmandise” (in praise of gluttony) and another writer, Frédéric Beigbeder, who was launching a new organic vodka, “Le Philtre”, made with wheat in Cognac under his and his brother Charles’s supervision. So I went of course and was happy to meet the good fairy who had the idea in the first place, Ambre Rouvière, a literary editor who is friends with both authors.

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Galerie de la Présidence bets on blue for its 50 th!

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Albert Marquet, Saint Jean de Luz, Le Pont Routier, 1907

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the gallery, Florence Chibret-Plaussu, has organized a “Blue” exhibition with her most famous painters, Albert Marquet, Marcel Gromaire, Raoul Dufy but also Vieira da Silva, Boudin, Guillaumin and Fautrier. Galerie de la Présidence founded by her mother Françoise (who attended the opening) in 1971, is just across the street from the Elysée palace on place Beauvau. They participate in many museum exhibitions and have promoted to fame forgotten glories like Gromaire and Guillaumin. For three Sundays in a row in March, they organize a brunch for those of you who love Paris on the week end. Read More

Last minute for Le Tan’s auction at Sotheby’s

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Pierre Le Tan’s interior recreated at Sotheby’s for the auction

This is your last chance to bid at Pierre Le Tan‘s auction of drawings and objects at Sotheby’s today. This wonderful illustrator who started working very young for the New Yorker,  died in December 2019. He left a very pretty collection of works by his contemporaries, but also Asian lacquer boxes, islamic art, fabrics, books. The intimacy of an artist is always interesting to penetrate. And there are many affordable paintings by Christian Bérard, a portrait of him by David Hockney and his portrait of Hockney.  But also many of his drawings are for sale (starting at 3 000 €), and Emilio Terry, Foujita, Jean Hugo…  His taste was refined and impeccable. At Sotheby’s on the 16 th at 2 pm and on Internet until the 17 th.

Piere Le Tan, David Hockney

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