09.10.2018 Paint tube 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 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 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 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12.22.2017 The antic sky of Cy Twombly Crossed paths “Cy Twombly’s work feeds on historical references, literature and art.” (Etienne Sallon)
11.17.2017 The vanished fresco 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 Crossed paths « There is no line, there is no modelling, there are only contrasts » (Lawrence Gowing)
06.16.2017 On Kawara 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 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 Crossed paths Art that is both painting and literature, Twombly’s work would remain hush-hush for a long time.
03.27.2017 David Hockney’s perspective Crossed paths “Painters have always known there is something wrong with perspective…” – David Hockney
05.20.2016 Peter Doig: peaceful eeriness Crossed paths A bright red boat glides gently across a lake fringed by dense jungle…
02.15.2016 The treachery of images 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 Along the way Expert in contemporary art at Christie’s, Paul Nyzam presents Mondrian’s painting of trees.
10.15.2015 What is a painting? 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 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 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.