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France
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Man Ray’s studio yields final treasures
26 September 2014Sotheby’s are to offer 400 works in nearly 300 lots by Man Ray on November 15 in Paris. The collection, property of the Man Ray Trust, includes photographs, paintings, drawings, jewellery, objects and film.
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Frum beats the tribal drum alongside the Parcours
24 September 2014ALL 49 lots from the Murray Frum collection of Oceanic art found a buyer on September 16 at Sotheby’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in Paris. The hammer total was €6.24m (£5.2m).
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Piasa’s new Paris premises
15 September 2014As Paris moved into top gear last week with the opening of the ‘Biennale des Antiquaires’ fair at the Grand Palais and the ‘Parcours des Mondes’ tribal art trail, the auction firm Piasa chose this as the moment to unveil their new headquarters at number 118 on the fashionable rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, set midway between Sotheby’s and Christie’s Paris rooms.
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Heads up for two tribal gatherings
26 August 2014As the summer break ends, next month sees a rush of activity in the art world with a flurry of events not least in the Tribal Art category.
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€900,000 – the price on emperor’s head
20 May 2014An ancient Roman marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian that had been in the same private collection for over half a century was the runaway highlight in a recent sale held by Tessier Sarrou & Associés at Drouot in Paris.
New owner pledges to vet Paris’s biggest antiques markets
12 May 2014The new owner of the biggest antique markets in Paris has pledged to vet them for authenticity and quality.
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Sculptor to the Medici emerges as the hand behind ‘German’ ewer
28 April 2014A very hefty price for a Baroque work of art emerged recently at the Drouot auction centre.
Christie’s woo film crowd
22 April 2014Christie’s are hoping to tap the international movie star market by putting on a preview for a new annual summer sale at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Scandinavian style, exclusive design
14 April 2014The uncompromising Danish furniture designer/carpenter Peder Moos (1906-91) carefully hand-crafted virtually all his distinctive furniture.
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Provence profile – a town of many markets
11 April 2014The medieval town of L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, near Avignon, is one of the most visited places in Provence.
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€20.5m magic of Marcilhac name
20 March 2014A packed saleroom and a continuous barrage of phone bids combined to ensure a near sell-out, multi-estimate result at Sotheby’s in Paris for their three-session auction (in association with Artcurial) of the collection of Félix Marcilhac.
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Dealers head across the Channel to sample French attractions
07 March 2014A small contingent of dealers from the UK are currently travelling to Paris for the launch of Cipolat SA’s new biannual antiques fair.
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Winter Olympic gold – torches scoop top prices
17 February 2014Like those London buses where you wait forever then two come along at once, two versions of a rare Olympic torch limited to just 33 examples turned up in separate Drouot auctions in Paris within the space of just ten days.
Piasa move to bigger headquarters in Paris
14 February 2014Paris auction house Piasa will move this spring to a new location at 118 rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, the prestigious Right Bank shopping street, home to art and antiques galleries and to Sotheby’s Paris.
Paris auctioneers suspended over sham bidding and other misdemeanours
03 February 2014A Paris auction firm has been banned from holding sales for nine months and two of its auctioneers suspended for three months following a disciplinary hearing by the government body appointed to oversee auction practice in France.
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Paris sales hold up well in a difficult year
21 January 2014The annual sales figures issued for several of the major French auction houses (or French branches of international auction houses) showed that for many, though not all, they saw an increase over the previous year despite what has been a difficult economic climate.
French U-turn on import VAT
06 November 2013The French art world has welcomed their government’s decision to cut, rather than increase, the rate on tax for works imported in to France from outside the EU.
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The price of peace for Nevinson in Paris
27 August 2013Demonstrating the benefits that provincial auctioneers continue to derive from the growth in demand for Modern British art, a number of this summer’s sale highlights in the regions were supplied by 20th century pictures.
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French auction results show Contemporary art at the forefront
05 August 2013Several of the main French auction firms and French branches of international houses have produced their half-year sales figures.
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Rediscovered Japanese coffer sells to Rijksmuseum at £5m
09 July 2013An exceptional piece of 17th century Japanese export lacquer with a provenance to match has produced the highest auction price in France this year when it was sold to the Rijksmuseum for a hammer price of €5.9m (£5.26m).