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 Since the creation of the porcelain manufactory of Sevres under Louis XV with the support of the Marquise de Pompadour, the king passed large orders. » More
 Honore Daumier, this name evokes for many of you a caricaturist of society and politics under Louis Philippe and the Second Empire. But he was also a true artist of his time both engraver and lithographer, painter and sculptor. » More
 The 26 and 27 October, Sotheby's Paris in association with Piasa organizes the auction of the collection Fabius Frères. Over 400 works will be sold for an estimation of 9 to 14 million euros.
Sculptures by Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean-Francois Carpeaux, furniture by Grohé, Dufin and Diehl, works of art by Theodore Deck or Maurice Marinot, drawings and paintings of the nineteenth century by Jean Beraud or Aldophe Yvon. The viewing for the exceptional collection Fabius is opened since the 21th at the Galerie Charpentier.
In sculpture, the collection is the largest nineteen century collection ever sold at auction. Two major artists - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) and Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875) - transform the sales event. Note particularly the large marble group of Daphnis and Chloe by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, estimated between 1 million to 1 500 000 €. The sale also includes 51 bronzes by Antoine-Louis Barye with Theseus and the Minotaur, from the collections of the King of Portugal and estimated 200 000 to 300 000 €.
The selection includes some classic eighteenth century furniture and nineteenth most exuberant creations and classic furnishings from Louis XIV to the Empire style. Decorative arts, ceramics and glass are represented by a wide variety of pieces, including unique works by Theodore Deck, Eugene and Maurice Collinot Marinot.
The history of the collection dates back to Elie Fabius, who has a prestigious gallery in Paris in 1882. Passionate about Napoleon and Lafayette, historical memories and sculptures by Carpeaux and Barye, Fabius put the nineteenth century style in fashion. The work of Elie Fabius was continued by the first of his son and then by his grandson, son Francis, brother of Laurent who died in 2006.
To know more : www.sothebys.com
Illustrations :
Illustration 1 : lot 178 - Exceptionnelle paire de vases Médicis, deuxième grandeur en porcelaine dure de Sèvres, l’un daté 1811, peints et signés par Jean-François Robert. À décor polychrome sur fond écaille sur l’un de l’Empereur devant les coteaux de Bellevue et de Meudon, l’autre de l’Empereur et Marie-Louise en calèche devant le château de Saint-Cloud ; au revers, deux griffons affrontés autour d’une vasque flammée et encadrés de rinceaux et palmettes en or, guirlandes de grappes de raisins sur le col et frise de feuillage en dorure, socles carrés en bronze doré. Hauteur : 66 cm. Estimation : 500 000-800 000 €
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 Carmontelle was a fine artist specialized in drawings and watercolors. He organized the Duke of Orleans, future Philippe-Egalite, parties’ and was an inventor of genius. Very famous in the second part of the 18 th century is fame did not cross the mid 19 th century.
Yet fans and collectors, starting with the Duke of Aumale, make no mistake about his talent s his auction result can attest.
Let’s discover the artist and his work.
His beginning
Louis de Carmontelle or Carmontelle whose real name was Louis Carrogis was born in Paris in 1717 from a father shoemaker. After studying drawing and geometry, he became an engineer at the age of 23. He then entered the service of the Duke of Luynes at Dampierre Castle as a tutor in mathematics and drawings of the children of the Duke.
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 Medieval Art has done very well her this year. Several pieces have attracted the interest of French and international collectors in particular during two auctions by PIASA (Paris) in January and June.
Some surprises as the world record of a fifteenth century Burgundy walnut and gold polychrome apostle, traditionally attributed to the altarpiece of Theuley (Haute-Saône), which fetched to 202,000 Euros, breaking the final result of another statuette from the same altarpiece sold for 190,000 Euros in 2007 in a countryside auction. Both sculptures were expertise by Laurence Fligny who is the specialist in the field in charge of those two sales.
Another surprising result for a small sculpture by Leonardo Kern (1588-1662) depicting two children playing, one straddling the other, it reached the peaks of 165, 000 Euros. It was a happy discovery for vendors who could not imagine owning a small masterpiece of this German artist who is very popular on the Germanic market.
The Italian art with a seven panels painted ceiling from the mid-fifteenth century, depicting characters in flower buttons with a very handsome young knight holding a sword and a banner. This series attracted many bidders and was finally sold to the trade for 80,000 Euros.
Our next auction, actually in preparation, will focus on fine furniture including a beautiful and rare cassone, an armoire hiding a painted cabinet probably from the Loire Valley or Burgundy's second third of the seventeenth century. Note also in this sale an exceptional capital, sophisticated interpretation of the Corinthian one with acanthus leaves of great finesse. The quality of the stone, very fine-grained limestone and style suggest that this capital could come from the cloister of Notre Dame en Vaux at Chalons-en-Champagne.
The Mediaval Art is specific as it combines various works of art ranging from furniture to sculpture and through many techniques and materials as diverse as wrought iron, ivory, enamel painted or champlevé, wood, stone or glass. We can visit the whole of Europe through the productions of Germanic, Italian, Iberian, Flemish, English artists. In addition, many of these works have retained a strong spiritual presence that continues to exercise their fascination today.
Our next meeting will be on December the 2nd with PIASA at Drouot, with over 200 lots ranging from low estimates to top for some major masterpieces of medieval or Renaissance art.
Laurence FLIGNY
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 Of all the great sculptors of the second half of the 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux is probably one of the best known and his name evokes in the minds of many a sculpture in bronze, marble or terracotta seen at auction, in a gallery, at Drouot or in a museum.
His beginnings
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born in 1827 in Valenciennes in a working class family particularly poor. Son and grandson of a mason, he joined early on as an apprentice to a master plasterer, training applicant to know how to draw, is enrolled in the Academy de Peinture, Sculpture et Architecture in Valenciennes. In 1838 he moved to Paris and took courses at the Ecole Gratuite drawing, also called Petite Ecole, until 1843. » More
 Older than 60 years, this buffet-sideboard is part of the French history. It was produced at the request of the Ministry of War to equip the interiors of the victims of the 2nd World War. Brief overview of this highly functional piece of furniture which lays the foundations of design.
Before IKEA
Designed by René Gabriel, a leading French designer furniture specialist in series, this piece of simple structure devoid of ornament, is a simple buffet, both chest of drawers and armoire. It fits into many apartments just after the war in late 1940/early 1950. These homes, rebuilt in the emergency from Orleans to Le Havre, sheltered the victims to whom this buffet was sold at a very symbolic price.
A successful design
In the history of furniture, this is perhaps one of the first pieces of furniture in France to truly answer the fundamental principles of Design: objects with simple shapes and useful for the many.
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 On July 20, the National Assembly passed a law reforming and liberalizing public auction in France. The implementing decree came into force on 1 September and museums are the primary beneficiaries. » More
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