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09.10.2018 Paint tube

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) - Claude Monet peignant à l’orée d'un bois, en 1885 (peinture produite par Miss Emily Sargent et Mrs Ormond grâce au National Art Collections Fund en 1925), Tate Modern, Londres
Along the way

Although the paint tube appeared three decades before the official date given for the start of Impressionism, it was given a decisive role in the evolution of pictorial art.

07.30.2018 Painting: in the eye of the myth

Jean-Baptiste Regnault  (1754–1829) - L'Origine de la peinture.
Along the way

And what if painting had been, in its mythical origin, the projection of the shadow of a face on a clear surface?

07.02.2018 Target man

Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978) - Portrait prémonitoire de Guillaume Apollinaire (1914) Musée national d'art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris
Crossed paths

“This is one of the first Surrealist paintings – a word that didn’t exist when the piece of work was painted.” (Paul Nyzam)

01.12.2018 Young girl combing her hair

Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) - Jeune fille se coiffant les cheveux, 1894, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Crossed paths

Young girl combing her hair (1894) of Auguste Renoir, by writer and exhibition commissioner Pascal Bonafoux, also a Professor Emeritus of History of Art at University Paris VIII.

12.22.2017 The antic sky of Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly - Plafond de la salle des bronzes (détail), Musée du Louvre, Paris
Crossed paths

“Cy Twombly’s work feeds on historical references, literature and art.” (Etienne Sallon)

11.17.2017 The vanished fresco

Léonard de Vinci (1452-1519) - Tête d'un guerrier ('le chef rouge ') - étude pour la bataille d'Anghiari, 1504-5, Musée des arts fins, Budapest
Along the way

The battle of Anghiari, an unfinished fresco from Leonardo Da Vinci, dazed those who saw it until it became invisible.

10.27.2017 The logic of organised sensations of Cezanne

Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) Le cruchon vert (Photo© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Tony Querrec), Musée d'Orsay, conservé au Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Crossed paths

« There is no line, there is no modelling, there are only contrasts » (Lawrence Gowing)

06.16.2017 On Kawara

On Kawara, May 1, 1987, acrylique sur toile, 154.9 x 226.1 cm. (© Christie’s images, 2017)
Crossed paths

“These dates, that follow each other in succession, paint a picture of a mysterious artist .” (Paul Nyzam)

05.22.2017 Josef Albers’ colours

Josef Albers (1888-1976) - Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken (1969), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Along the way

German-born Josef Albers, professeur at the Bauhaus, a visual arts educator and the author of a theory of colours, had a great impact on post war contemporary American art.

04.21.2017 Cy Twombly

Untitled, de Cy Twombly (1928-2011). Huile, mine de plomb et crayon gras sur papier 70 x 87.5 cm. (27½ x 34½ in.) Réalisé à Rome en juillet 1970.
Crossed paths

Art that is both painting and literature, Twombly’s work would remain hush-hush for a long time.

04.07.2017 Mirrors of water

Nymphéas (1905), de Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Crossed paths

The water lilies appear secondary to the shimmering water…

03.31.2017 Floral hoax

Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) - Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase
Along the way

For sure these painted bouquets are authentic, bloom by bloom.

03.27.2017 David Hockney’s perspective

David Hockney, Hollywood Hills studio, le 8 décembre 2015 (© Katherine McMahon)
Crossed paths

“Painters have always known there is something wrong with perspective…” – David Hockney

05.20.2016 Peter Doig: peaceful eeriness

Red boat (imaginary boys) de Peter Doig (né en 1959) ©Christie’s images, 2016
Crossed paths

A bright red boat glides gently across a lake fringed by dense jungle…

03.24.2016 « The Orange Blind »

The Orange Blind (1929) by Francis Campbell Cadell (Scottish, 1884-1937)
Along the way

memento is a magazine based on the logic of harmonics…

02.15.2016 The treachery of images

La clef des songes (René Magritte, 1898-1967)
Along the way

This is one of Magritte’s most famous paintings, to be read like an enigmatic comic book in six squares…

12.28.2015 Mondrian’s trees

Pommier en fleurs, 1912 (Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944)
Along the way

Expert in contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam presents Mondrian’s painting of trees.

11.12.2015 Silva

La gorge aux loups (détail) - Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
Shadow of scents

The tree pulses the slow beat of the world.

10.15.2015 What is a painting?

Roue de bicyclette; Marcel Duchamp 1964, ex. Rrose/ Edition Galerie Schwarz, Milan. L'original, perdu, a été réalisé à Paris en 1913.
Crossed paths

One day in 1913 Mr. Marcel Duchamp, a painter, chose to display everyday objects industrially produced as works of art – nothing was ever to be quite the same again.

10.12.2015 Outrenoir

Pierre Soulages, Peinture 136 x 136 cm, 24 décembre 1990. Copyright: © Christie's Images, 2015.
Along the way

Christie’s contemporary art specialist, Paul Nyzam, comments on the work of French painter Pierre Soulages and his ‘outrenoirs’.

07.30.2015 Simon Hantaï

Simon Hantaï (1922-2008), Sans titre, aquarelle sur toile libre, 1971. © Christie’s images, 2015.
Along the way

In the early sixties, Simon Hantaï, of Hungarian origin, did one of the most innovative artistic gestures of the second half of the 20th century.

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