From October 1, to October 16, 2021 Painting Country of volcanoes, glaciers, Iceland is a land of contrast where the elements collide and reveal their dazzling nature. Bernard Alligand used to blend a paint binder with sand, sulfuric sludge, ash from volcanoes, … these collected materials are then dried, grinded, sifted, and integrated into his paintings. https://www.csedt.org/project/librairie-galerie-laure-matarasso/
Exhibition from september 8, to october 2, 2021 Photography baudoin lebon presents “sidewalk” by Lisette Model, an influential figure in mid-twentieth century photography». She stated that photography is “the art of the moment”. Motto that will guide her vision throughout her career. From the 1930s onwards, she distinguished herself by her uncompromising portraits: women and men, acquaintances and strangers, the wealthy and the neglected, isolated or in the crowd. Her frontal photography paints edifyingly realistic portraits of the whole of society. In the late 1930s, Lisette Model moved to New York and began to photograph the city. Through contact with the city, Model’s photography was...
For the new season, the Martinez Fleurot gallery offers visitors its latest acquisitions : Henri Rivière, japonese prints … https://www.csedt.org/project/galerie-martinez-fleurot/
From september 18, 2021 to october 9, 2021, the l’Estampe gallery displays Free Figuration painters. Born in the 80’s, this movement expresses itself through a free, simplified drawing, inspired by comics and the punk scene. Artists such as Robert Combas, Hervé Di Rosa, François Boisrond or Rémi Blanchard remain eager to give back a place to figurative painting by freeing themselves from the conceptual austerity of artistic movements of the 70s and deliver a furiously colourful, explosive and violent painting. The gallery is glad to present the Combas, Di Rosa, Marc Duran, André Cervera and Topolino’s works, 5 artists from Sète whose fame...
We have the pleasure in sending out our new Catalogue 111; a listing of over 200 items. It includes portraits, topography both Foreign and UK, sports and pastimes such as boxing and fishing, military, naval, some Americana and satire. Some highlights: James Balfour Esq.r. Secretary & Treasurer of the Edinburgh Company of Golfers. 1795. By desire of the Company. Henry Raeburn pinx.t. J. Jones sculp.t. Published as the Act directs by Will.m Murray, Bookseller, Parliament Close Edin.gh October 1796. Mezzotint. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼”). Contemporary double frame. Unexamined out of frame. [Ref: 56714] £1,500.00 View of Mutura...
In her sixth novel, Le Jeune Homme au bras fantôme/the young man with the phantom arm (Le Passage publishing house, august 2021) Hélène Bonafous-Murat explores the changing face of 19th century Paris. The plot is rooted in the Transnonain Street Massacre (1834), which was the subject of a famous lithograph by Daumier. It depicts the business and classified ads world that abounds on the back of the plates published in Le Charivari. Charles Hû, the hero in this novel unfolds against a backdrop of his own story, a young man who survived the massacre that left him with an arm missing at the...
