The ancient Chinese furniture are rare on the market. On Wednesday April the 8th will take place at Sotheby's Hong Kong an exceptionnal auction. The Biegucang collection consisting of beautiful furniture lacquer most of Ming period will go under the hammer.

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Over the past ten years the cartoons ' auction became a market independant of the book with its own specialists and auctions catalogs. The museums themselves are beginning to look at this art, since 2008 the Centre Georges Pompidou presents an original drawing by Hergé from the album "The Calculus affair".

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70 000 € for a Louis XIV Boulle cabinet, 40 000 € for a small table from Marie Antoinette. But those furniture are only copies. How to explain those prices: the quality, the richness of their materials and their rarity.

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The Art Street, as an art movement from the New York tradition and culture associated with Hip-hop encompasses disciplines as diverse as graffiti, stencil, poster, sticker, mosaic ...

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The Louis XIII style developed in France between 1589 and 1660. It is a major period between the Renaissance and the furniture style of Louis the XIVth. During this period, armchairs, chairs, cupboards and cabinets adopt forms that we know. However, Louis XIII furniture are not popular among lovers of antique furniture.

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Two men reknown for their taste, a collection of works and objets d'art unique, five auctions "event, a total of 373.9 million euros, hundreds of world records ... The so called the Sale of the Century seems to have kept all its promises ...

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Eugène Galien Laloue (1854-1941) is an impressionist painter specializing in paintings of Paris during the Belle Epoque. Very prolific artist, he produced some 5,000 paintings and 1,000 works in oil representing Paris but also lanscapes.

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The name Artigas is still not very famous from art lovers. It is often associated with painters and sculptors of Modern Art such as Dufy, Miró, Marquet, on vases, plates glazed earthenware, or sculptures. Who was he? What is his own work? What are his contributions to the art of the twentieth. century? How did he participate in the revival of ceramics' artist?

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Three hundred years ago, appaeared in Paris a new piece of furniture, the commode or chest of drawers. It can be en tombeau, sauteuse, Louis XV or Louis XVI, Empire or Louis-Philippe and usually opened in front by several drawers occasionnaly hidden behind two doors.

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Organizing an auction following a succession, our specialists dicovered among several prints, three original watercolors by the famous painter Charles-Ferdinand de Condamy (1847-1910).

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