Joseph-Marie, dit Jef van der Veken (1872-1964) est un peintre anversois renommé pour avoir restauré avec un soin inégalable des peintures de Primitifs flamands. Copiste sans pareil, l’apogée de sa carrière de restaurateur est sans aucun doute la copie des « Juges intègres » de l’Agneau Mystique de Jan van Eyck, réalisée en 1945.

 

Very early his special skills to make copies of old paintings allow him to turn to a career imitator at the end of his academic training in Antwerp.

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Whether reading an auction catalogue an art magazine or by discussing with an artist, your attention has been drawn by these three words "resale right" forming an enigmatic expression for the uninitiated.

Before going further, let's say it is a tax on the resale of a work of art that is paid to the artist.

Let us have a look on the history of the resale right, its rate and its beneficiaries.

 

History

 

Established in France in 1920, the legend tells that it was put in place after the sale of a painting by Jean-François Millet, The Angelus executed in 1858 for a huge sum in respect of the purchase price despite that the family the painter lived in poverty. Like all legends, it must have its truth and so France was the first country to organize the subsistence of its artists, knowing the glory only late and could not enjoy the benefits of their genius.

 

Type of art

 

The resale right applies to "original works of graphic or plastic created by the author himself, such as pictures, collages, paintings, drawings, engravings, prints, lithographs, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics, glassware, photographs and audiovisual creations of plastic or digital. "

 

It should be emphasized that the prints are excluded if posthumously executed even if they are limited in number and they were made under the supervision of the beneficiaries of the artist.

 

How long

 

The tax levied on the resale of a work of art, at auction, or in a gallery is donated to the artist or his family for 70 years after the death of the artist.

 

It applies to all artists in the European Union and the countries with similar rules.

 

Rates

 

In France, the right is paid by the seller as a work considered as a sell profit sharing. In contrast, in the UK, it is paid by the buyer and catalogues focus on lots possibly subject to avoid any misunderstanding when purchasing a modern painting at auction for example.

 

- 4% to €50 000

- 3% from €50 001 to €200 000

- 1% from €200 001 to €350 000

- 0.5% from €350 001 to €500 000

- 0.25% in excess of €500 001

 

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On June 27 and 28, Christie's London organized the largest auction of European postwar and contemporary art with a total of £148,283,125.

 

Francis Outred, Christie's Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art, Europe: "We are now operating in a truly global art market where the demand for masterpieces defines the collector’s passion. The very special place in art history and unique nature of works such as the Francis Bacon, Study for Self Portrait or Yves Klein’s Le Rose du Bleu is hard to quantify in value. (…) Price knows no barrier if a work has the magic, be it by an established master or a young emerging artist. Bidders and buyers from most continents are seeking to build collections of the highest quality and our outstanding results this week show that Europe is reinforcing its role as a global market centre for the greatest post-war and contemporary art".

 

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July 4, Sotheby's London will auction an exceptional ormolu and patinated bronze ink stand, made circa 1735 and attributed to the silversmith Juste-Aurele Meissonier. This work of art is estimated £200,000 to £300,000.

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Soon on holidays? And if this year you were doing like your kids, a little review of your classics ...? If you get stuck, do not worry, everything is in the previous articles of Authenticite!

 

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June 14, the SVV Art Valorem, assisted by experts of the cabinet Authenticite, sold an important display cabinet executed by Lexcellent circa 1900 for the record price of 38,000 Euros.

 

Lot 345 the auction catalogue described our piece of furniture as a "vitrine montée" in mahogany, mahogany veneer and with inlays of wood.

 

Prior to progress further into the catalogue entry it seems essential to define the piece of furniture which derived from the cabinet. The upper part of the cabinet opens by one or more doors holding on a stand. This type of furniture that appears in the second half of the nineteenth century is rarely found.

 

Our display cabinet opened by three glass panels doors, three drawers at the bottom and rests on a base opening in the belt by three drawers.

 

It should be emphasized the harmony of the front of our furniture which is punctuated by fluted columns. At the top it has an arched cornice and each column is surmounted by a foliated pinnacle.

 

Now lets have a look to the beautiful pedestal supporting our display cabinet. Matching the shape of a console, it is supported on eight fluted , tapered legs joined by a particularly elaborate stretcher which can be related to creation of two great cabinetmakers of the end of the Louis XVI period, , Adam Weisweiler Ferdinand Schwerdfeger . It seems that it has inspired the architecture and design of our furniture that can be compared to the “serre bijoux” executed for Queen Marie Antoinette at Versailles either in the arrangement of the base or in the form of curved belt in the middle.

 

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June 14, Authenticité expertise in partnership with the SVV Art Valorem will sell in Paris at auction drawings, old and modern paintings, jewellery and silverware and antique furniture and objects of arts. 366 lots will be offered for sale with estimates for some objects from a few tens of Euros. I invite you to discover my favourites.

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The contemporary artist Steven Marc exposes currently in the gallery Alexandre Lazarew, a disconcerting work. His portraits show us the power in its various aspects, and its effects on the human thirst for supremacy.

 

Member and co-founder of Art and Complexity in 1997, Steven Marc is one of the pioneers of digital art. From a computer program he has himself created, he applies to his images a "liquid modernity", which fuses the different components of the tyrant within a same block.

 

Somewhere, the artist warns against the appearance that can be deceiving: "Hand on heart, the worst tyrants arises-you as essential recourse there for his country at the service of his subjects? “ Behind the masks of seduction, these solemn gestures, postures and these noble, hides the real person.

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Auctions of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art took place in New York as usual in May. The auction house Sotheby's realized a flawless result, smashing several world records for many artists and won the palm with the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction to date.

In four sales, 2-3 and 9-10 May, Sotheby's sold for a total of more than £ 430 Million in the upper range of estimates of the sale, the highest since May 2008.

 

Impressionist and modern

 

Auctions on May 2 and 3 were assigned to impressionist and modern artists. Among many masterpieces, three artists were distinguished.

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Simple Object of paper, the book does not acquire its value on its single material, often unrepresentative of its importance. If the state of the binding or stapling is important, the value of the book lies primarily in the role of text in history.

 

The value of an old book is a complex combination of physical criteria and intellectual history. To set the value of an old book, the bibliophile will be attentive to the status of the different editions and different prints of the work, the presence of items from the handwritten notes or subsequent membership evidence, but primarily it will ensure the fundamental role and innovative text.

 

Writings of leading-edge

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