Composition photo is sold for 30000 euros

At the show in the drawing, there is something not found in other shows: an atmosphere animated by enthusiasts, merchants or visitors. For example, are found sometimes excited by a small discovery, a small technical detail often unhelpful in commercial terms. Somehow, this is a market more noble than the "common" of the art trade. It is driven by connoisseurs interested and enthusiastic. "Jean-Luc Baroni, pillar of the international art market, is ecstatic about the small specialized Paris frequently. Of Italian origin, he speaks French perfectly and worked in London. He stopped his contribution to fairs in New York and Maastricht, but continues to exhibit in Paris.

This year, the Salon of the drawing opens next Wednesday. Composed of 30 selected merchants, it is 22 to 27 March at the Palace of the stock market. Jean-Luc Baroni to show, for fun, one of the most expensive leaves sold recently, a record price for the rare artist of the Renaissance, Andrea Del Sarto. It is a sketch of a human face, saint Joseph, particularly expressive. The merchant was purchased at auction in July last to $ 11.7 million for the account of a private client. It is therefore not for sale. The large piece was found recently is a preparatory study a Florentine painting. It will also propose a drawing pen and the Brown wash of Giovan Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804), which deals with one of the episodes, the arrival in Egypt, of the "life of secret", iconic character of his satirical stories. It will be displayed with a price of approximately 750,000 euros, and the merchant does not hide to have acquired in Paris the year last for 437.600 euros.

"In times of General questioned as that which we live today, observed Jean-Luc Baroni, people tend to turn to solid areas such as to better protect themselves." In older designs, they seek above all quality. "He gives the example, January 24 at Christie's, a sheet of the great Michelangelo which remained unsold with an estimate of $ 4 million. "Why". The drawing was illegible. People buy more only a name. It is the great change in the last ten years. "According to him, the sector of Italian drawings, considered the domain of high classicism in collection, suffers from a serious shortage. "In Paris, for example, three years earlier more, was 30 of Italian drawings in sales specialized auction." It is finished.

In the same way, the offer is lean in the field of the drawings of the beginning of the 19th century. It is in all cases the diagnosis of Antoine Lorentin, installed quai Voltaire in Paris. Its offer thus slides progressively towards the end of the 19th and the 20th century. It will outline to show clearly visible red garter belt, a french Moulin Rouge cancan dancer and drawing one of its delicious "Petite woman of Paris", the years 1895, low black. She is represented in watercolour and ink, in a similar style of Lautrec, by Georges Bottini (1874-1907), a painter of Montmartre (10,000 euros). Despite his short life, its production in a near folk register montmartrois has made it popular across the Atlantic, and the first book that was spent was published in an exhibition at the Miami Museum in 1984.

The return of the Americans

Precisely, according to Antoine Lorentin, attendance at the Americans in Paris begins to back, while she was non-existent since September 11, 2001. A healthy new hexagonal market. It may be headed with the return of the US demand that it exposes a gouache of the 1961 American Alexander Calder. Composition (photo) is sold for 30,000 euros. "Despite a weak dollar against the euro, prices in French galleries remain at least 20 lower than in the Anglo-Saxon galleries." "The reason is simple: the purchasing power of collectors is much higher in the United States", observes the dealer. It also recognizes as all interviewed professionals that, since a few months, transactions multiply and prices are increasing in the area of the drawing. "Increases were observed for pleasant, typical of an artist and identifiable subjects immediately." The market gives the premium accessible at first works. To be well sold, a light should resemble a light...

Evidence of the evolution of demand, this year, the drawing fair opens its doors to a specialist Gallery of the leaves of the first part of the 20th century, Zlotowski, installed rue de Seine in Paris. On the stand, the lighthouse object is a watercolour of famous Wassily Kandinsky dated 1930. Abstract composition animated brightly colored geometric shapes is to sell around 150,000 euros. At more modest rates, included for example, for 7,000 euros, a drawing in pencil of 1918 representing a male silhouette by Auguste Herbin, one of the Cubists in the first hour. Michel Zlotowski observed a rise in strength of the ratings for the artists that fit within the movements of the avant-garde of the 20th century. "Cubism, abstraction, surrealism...". Since last year, prices increase significantly.

He also prognostic higher prices for the pictorial production of Charles Edouard Jeanneret, said Le Corbusier. In addition to its innovative creation in architectural matters, Le Corbusier painted and drawn in a style cubisant that will evolve with time. Approximately 8,000 drawings have produced, which a majority is owned by the Le Corbusier Foundation, which attempts to enhance this work today. In Geneva, the Rath Museum shows the pictorial work of the architect under the title "The synthesis of the arts" August 8, and other exhibitions projects are emerging in Europe. On the stand Zlotowski, a washed pastel of the 1950s representing a female character in round shapes is for sale for 20,000 euros. One day, Le Corbusier had told the poet Louis Aragon: "Here, I want to make you a confession." I architect, but I am also painter, painter of trade. I have two hearts, as in the song, two homelands.