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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April 26, the auctioneer Woolley and Wallis in Salisbury, United Kingdom, sold a pair of natural pearl and diamond earrings for £ 1.4 million

Let's look at this jewel and its history.

 

Expertise

 

The pair of earrings consigned by a private seller, unnamed, was sent for expertise to the Schweizerische Stiftung für Edelstein-Forschung, Swiss Gemological Institute.

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Mochica culture has developed on the north coast of Peru between the first century and the ninth century AD. It is famous for its ceramics deposited in graves as offerings to the dead.

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Neoclassical sculptor of recognized talent in the late eighteenth century, the name of Louis-Simon Boizot is now unknown to the general public. His name appears frequently in the catalogs of auctions leaning against that of Sevres or that of a bronze sculptor.

Rediscovering this talented artist who gave birth to many groups bisque as well as first-rate clocks and bronzes for royal furniture.

 

His beginning

 

Louis-Simon Boizot was born in Paris in 1743, his father Antoine Boizot is designer at the factory of Gobelins tapestries. At the age of 16 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and cut his teeth in the studio of the sculptor René-Michel Slodtz (1705-1764) following Antoine Houdon (1741 - 1828). In 1762 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture and stayed in Rome from 1765 to 1770 where he rediscovered the ancient statuary then sought amateurs and executes commands for Catherine II of Russia and for many sights of Paris, the Palais Bourbon , and the churches of Sainte Genevieve and Saint Sulpice. From 1773 and until 1800 he exhibited at the Salon and in 1778 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with a marble representing Meleagre now in the Louvre Museum.

 

Boizot and Sevres

 

In 1773, he succeeded to the sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet at the head of sculpture workshops of the Manufacture de Sèvres where he created many models of groups that are executed in biscuit. His style is marked by the neoclassicism but retains a touch of fantasy dear to Louis XV. This is particularly noticeable in its various sculptures on the theme of Venus. A vase of Sevres porcelain amphora-shaped is called "vase Boizot" but the role that our sculptor played in its creation remains unclear. He retains his position until 1800.

 

La toilette de Vénus d'après Louis-Simon Boizot, biscuit en porcelaine de Sèvres, vente Tajan le 15 décembre 2011.

 

Boizot and the bronze makers

 

The talent of sculptor Boizot allows him to work with the largest bronze makers of the late Louis XVI in particular Gouthière, Thomire and Remond.

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