by Judith Benhamou | Oct 31, 2016 | Art Market, Auction, Photography, Video interviews
Share this articleHe was a one-time actor, a failed painter and a man of modest means who at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th created an immense body of work that systematically chronicled an old Paris that was in the process of disappearing. From...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 20, 2016 | Artists, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Share this article This story gets off on the wrong foot. It involves an artist who is already the subject of a lot of talk – arguably a little too much – and who caused several scandals in the 2000s, through his art, and also with his record prices. In the...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 19, 2016 | Art Fair, Contemporary art, Gallery, Video interviews
Share this articleThe setting is sensational: FIAC, which takes place from 20 to 23 October, is swelled with 186 galleries from 26 different countries and this year stretches beyond the Grand Palais into the Petit Palais (where 4o works are shown inside and out at the...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 16, 2016 | Art Market, Collection, Contemporary art
Claude Berri collection catalogue Robert Ryman ‘Everything I’ve done in the cinema lately has been for the sake of painting. Cinema was magnificent in the ’70s. There are fewer masterpieces these days.’ In 2008 the celebrated film maker and producer Claude Berri...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 12, 2016 | Art History, Collection, Exhibition, Modern Art, Museum, Video interviews
Henri Matisse Claude Monet Vincent Van Gogh Paul Gauguin André Derain Henri Matisse Marie Laurencin Edouard Vuillard Odilon Redon Pablo Picasso Auguste Renoir Paul Gauguin This story was written after a trip to Saint Petersburg and Moscow The history of modern art,...