https://youtu.be/rZJlJ75b7tc Backwards and forwards This is how the avant-garde works: in order to move forwards, it looks backwards. To allow their creation to grow and bear fruit, artists use the work of their elders as a catalyst. It was in...
Paris: the colossal impact of Art Basel at the Grand Palais
Grand-Palais effect There is an “Art Basel effect” within the art market, or in other words, how an entire city can be transformed over a few days by a massive influx of art professionals but also art fans, who come expecting the best in...
Frieze week in London from Manet to Emin: ambitions and surprises
Art Basel Paris The entire art world has been waiting for this crucial moment for a long time: the Art Basel Paris fair - with its international clout - which is taking place for the first time under the glass roof of the Grand Palais, one of...
Hong Kong: the ups and downs of the art market
https://youtube.com/shorts/YYT5sVEZMwQ?si=nijLyFSzf-8HR_yd Spirit of conquest always As the general context fuels many concerns across the world, the spirit of conquest still seems to be the watchword in the art market. In Hong Kong, for...
The entire studio of a surrealist at auction: Clovis Trouille
Noticed by Aragon and Dali Imagine an artist who was noticed from 1930 by the poet Louis Aragon and the painter Salvador Dali. He would later join the surrealist group of André Breton. Imagine a painter whose body of work would be entirely made...
In the Parisian galleries ahead of Art Basel Paris
Paris is on full view At a time when Paris is on full view to the world following the Olympic Games and ahead of Art Basel Paris, which is taking place for the first time at the Grand Palais, French gallerists are redoubling their ambitions...
In New York the art market is seeking a new lease of life
Closure of galleries With the effect of upheavals around the world, the contemporary art market is in the process of restructuring itself. The first evolution is the closure of numerous galleries. In New York, the global epicentre of art sales,...
Chillida: the return of the Spanish contemporary art star
Museum quality The most powerful galleries on the planet currently have the luxury of staging exhibitions that could just as well be taking place in museums. Not everything is for sale and the visit inevitably whips up desire in art lovers...
Chinese artists who are inventing a new way of painting
Extraordinary inventiveness There are certain periods when artists from a particular country show evidence of an extraordinary inventiveness. The training they’ve followed, along with the political and sociological conditions in which they...
Art Basel: a show of strength in time of crisis
Always dynamic The art market is showing signs of an unusual level of dynamism. In times of growth, galleries with their structures of all sizes fearlessly strike out to conquer new territories, from China to the Middle East. And in times of...
Modern and contemporary art sales, what next?
The paradox of the art market Nowadays the paradox of the major sales of modern and contemporary art in New York lies in the fact that almost all of them take place before the auctioneer has lowered the hammer. The strength and weakness of...
Yves Klein and his granddaughter Seffa Klein: a dynasty of artists inspired by space
The son of the artist is not the artist We can’t confirm that talent is transmitted through the genes. It’s rare for an artist to pass on to their progeny the ability to truly express themselves in the domain of the visual arts. Throughout art...