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Antiques, painting, drawing, sculpture, furniture, fine art, porcelain, ceramic, work of art, carpet, tapestry, silver are among the subject studied.
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 Rendez-vous of the antiques and fine jewelry since 1956 amateurs', the Biennale is a real ephemeral museum bringing together masterpieces of the world's top 81 antiques dealers. Browse a preview of our selection in images of works of art of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century .
David Teniers Le Jeune (1610-1690)
La fête des singes
Huile sur cuivre
Signé sur une bûchette en bas à gauche : D. TENIER. F
Daté sur l’écusson 1633
33 x 41,5 cm
Galerie Florence de Voldere. STAND N° NA 11
Claude 1er Du Grand-Mesnil
Pendule régence au magot assis
Bronze ciselé et doré : cuivre doré, émail, métal, verre et soie. Porcelaine Kutani et Imari du Japon, époque Edo, fin du XVIIème siècle.
H59 cm (23¼ in) L26cm (10¼ in) Pr24cm (9½ in)
Paris, époque Régence, début du XVIIIème siècle, vers 1725-1730
Signature : C.D.G MESNIL A PARIS visible au revers du mouvement
Marques et inscriptions : C611/6n6, lettres et numéro gravés sous la figure du Hoteï
Galerie Steinitz. Stand N° ND 8
Paire de chenets en bronze ciselé, ajouré et doré
Les feux aux Tritons
Époque Louis XV
Galerie Kraemer. STAND N° SA 1
Christofle & Cie, Paris et Emilie Reiber (1826-1893)
Jardinière Cigognes
1874
Vase en émaux cloisonnés opaques représentant selon le catalogue de 1874 « un vol de cigognes au-dessus de la mer ». Monture, anses et pied en bronze patiné et doré.
Hauteur : 157,5 cm
Chadelaud. STAND N° NC 4
Edmond Georges Grandjean (1844-1908)
Vue de la rue de Rivoli et la Tour Saint-Jacques à Paris
Huile sur toile 38,5 x 61,5 cm
Signée et datée « 1878 » en bas à gauche
Berko Fine Paintings. STAND N° NA 7
INFORMATIONS
When: from Thursday 11 to Sunday 21 September 2014
Opening hours: every day from 11' to 8' PM (until 11' PM on Thursday 11, Tuesday 16 and Thursday 18 September)
Where: Grand Palais - Avenue Winston Churchill Paris 8ème
Direction: Métro Lignes 1 & 13 / Champs Elysées-Clémenceau » More
 Patek Philippe, the last independent Geneva Manufacture
Since its founding in 1839, Patek Philippe continues to perpetuate the traditional Geneva watchmaking.
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 The French Masters Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille, Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier are definitely on the rise among bidders worldwide. » More
 Sunday, May 18, the auction house Guillaume Le Floc'h, in collaboration with Authenticité specialists for furniture and works of art, will auction at St. Cloud old masters and modern paintings, animal bronzes and furniture and works of art.
Among the paintings that will be sold let's focus on Lot 43, an oil on canvas painted by the Ukrainian painter Alexandre Altmann (1895-1950), author also of lots 44 and 45. Entitled "House on the River”, signed lower left, measuring 60 cm by 73 cm, this painting is estimated between 6,000 and 7,000 Euros.
Among the works of art, a wildlife bronze caught our attention. It is a sculpture by Roger Godchaux (1878-1958), artist who is rarely seen in auctions, representing an Indian on his elephant on his way back from a hunting tigers. Casting, lost wax is due to Susse Frères renowned for the quality of its bronzes. It is estimated between 3,000 and 5,000 Euros.
Among the furniture's look at lot 168, a exceptional tall clock, veneered purplewood and kingwood, with a rich ormolu mounts, stamped François Duhamel and Louis XV period. It should be noted the complications of the movement of our clock which indicates the hours, minutes and seconds and days, calendars, month and moon phases. 8-12 000 Euros are expected for this beautiful timepiece.
Among the seats, lot 178, is an important pair of armchairs “a la reine” of the Louis XV period stamped by the famous cabinetmaker from Lyon, Pierre Nogaret. Characteristics of its own way include his rocaille lines, armrests whiplash and rich vegetable sculpture. They are estimated at between 5,000 8,000 Euros. (Main illustration)
Informations:
Where: hôtel des Ventes de Saint-Cloud - 1ter boulevard de la République – 92210 Saint-Cloud. » More
 If the arrival of digital technology has revolutionized the photographic practices, Thomas Salva was able to take this turn with philosophy.
Adolescent, the young Thomas learns the techniques in an amateur film club near Cherbourg. In the family home, Thomas built a laboratory of odds and ends and tries to black and white prints. Therefore the sensations of "chemistry", the "touch", the "black" would not leave him.
In 2007, then aged 23, Thomas leaves valedictorian at the Ecole des Gobelins in Paris. Digital retouching, photography studio, the discovery of a practice in the "pixels" is rough but allows the photographer to define his style: his approach, digital or silver print, based on the same minimalist aesthetic, inspired by the work on film and alternative methods.
Thomas Salva focuses, like his master Bernard Plossu on the details of everyday life that reveal the power of life. The infra-ordinary defined by Georges Perec is his favorite playground.
In the exercise of portrait, the photography of Thomas Salva expressed fully: deeply humanistic, soft and delicate.
Thomas was able to make of his sensitivity and the precepts of the "silver print" philosophy, a force to fit all sizes: Panoramic, Polaroid, medium format, black and white, color, digital, silver print.
Since 2009, Thomas Salva is also recognized as writer-director and videographer. Alongside the journalist Olivier Lambert, he developed documentary projects for the web, television and film, where his leg and his eye reveal animated images. Projects, Brèves de trottoirs and La Nuit Oubliée – 17 octobre 1961 have received numerous awards in France and abroad.
Thomas Salva is co-founder of the creative laboratory audiovisual Lumento.
Our advice: invest! The signed and numbered 30 x 40 cm prints are sold between £400 and £600: a price that is still very accessible before the next "first" high exhibition. For more information, please contact the artist directly at Thomas@lumento.fr
Copyright : courtesy of Thomas Salva
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 From 1954 to 1958, Ingo Maurer studied the graphic arts in Munich. He went to work a few years in New York and California before founding his studio Design M in Munich in 1963 and devote himself to the design of light units.
The career of the designer begins with a single bulb hanging from the ceiling ... First great inspiration. Follows his first table lamp: Bulb, a giant crystal lamp in chrome that quickly became cult. » More
 February 20, Versailles informed us have received an extraordinary gift: a Japanese lacquer commode performed by Gaudreaus for the bedroom of Louis XV in the Chateau de Choisy.
Let’s focus on this piece, the donation and the intricacies of this donation.
The commode
Curved in black and gold Japanese, with red floral motifs and European lacquer or vernis Martin (see our previous article), opening in front by two large drawers without apparent traverses and two side cabinets. It rests on cabriole legs and wears a red marble top.
It has outstanding ormolu rocaille bronzes decorated with palms, reeds, shells, concretions and windings.
Our furniture was delivered in 1744 by the marchand mercier Thomas-Joachim Hébert for the bedroom of King Louis XV at the Chateau de Choisy and was executed by the cabinetmaker Antoine Robert Gaudreaus. The chamber of Louis XV at Versailles was also furnished with a commode by Gaudreaus, delivered in 1739, inlaid kingwood and whose bronzes are signed Caffieri.
Lacquers from Japan were at the time, a very rare and particularly expensive product. To perform this commode, the garde meuble royal provides Hébert a lacquer screen, bought by Louis XIV, he cut up and of which he made thin the lacquer panels so they can be plated on the frame of the commode. This step is particularly difficult because the lacquer is very fragile.
The donation
The commode remains at the Chateau de Choisy until it was unfurnished then passes into the rooms of Madame Elisabeth and Queen Marie-Antoinette at Chateau de Saint-Cloud finally sold during the revolutionary sales.
It reappears in Egypt in the early twentieth century and passes in Italy by an American collector before being acquired in auctions in Italy in 1987 by Edmond J. Safra.
It is the widow of the latter, which through its philanthropic foundation has donated it at Versailles. This donation is not the first of the Edmond J Safra foundation; it has previously given to the Louvre two terrines and stands in silver executed by the goldsmith Balzac from the famous Penthièvre Orleans service as well as watercolors and manuscripts.
The story behind
This donation was not made without problems. Announced in 2009-2010, the services of Italian cultural goods refused to grant permission to leave their territory to the commode they saw as a national treasure when it has not in any meaning for Italy own heritage . It was not executed by neither an Italian artist, nor an Italian residence and arrived in the peninsula late, around 1960. It took the intervention of many curators and diplomacy to our piece of furniture can join the French public collections after more than three years of negotiations.
Let us hope that the quality of this commode gives new impetus for the restoration of certain rooms of Versailles and it will generate more donations from major collectors.
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