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Georges-Laurent Saupique, Les Colonies: L’Afrique du Nord,
L’Indochine, L’Afrique noire et Les Antilles (1927-29)ART DECO SALE, ARTCURIAL PARIS, 21 NOVEMBER ESTIMATE €1.2M-€1.5MThese monumental Art Deco sculptures, representing the French colonies, were designed by Georges Saupique for the entrance of the
Parisian headquarters of the Compagnie Financière Française et Coloniale. The two-year project, which fused Orientalist and Art Deco
sensibilities, helped build Saupique’s reputation as an artist. Saupique recalled the intense process of creating these works: “It was
a year illed with frantic work.” He used four types of marble for these sculptures, including a dark red French marble from Sampans
for the skin and a cream and veined Italian marble for the draped material. When the Compagnie Financière Française et Coloniale
building was sold, in 2000, the sculptures were sold by Artcurial to Claude and Simone Dray. In 2006, they were acquired by American
collectors, who have now consigned them to sale.Yerassimos Sklavos,
Exelixis/Evolution (1962)THE GREEK SALE, BONHAMS, LONDON,
16 NOVEMBER
ESTIMATE £40,000-£60,000A decade ago, the Greek art market was booming, but
the woes of the country’s economy have taken their toll.
Nevertheless, Bonhams has carried on with dedicated
sales, of which the most recent, earlier this year, fared
surprisingly well. The next sale includes two pieces by
Yerassimos Sklavos (1927-67) from the artist’s estate:
Volcano (1964-65) and Exelixis/Evolution (1962), the
latter a monumental column form reminiscent of a Greek
caryatid. The art historian and critic Christian Zervos made
the bold claim that Sklavos was “the greatest living sculptor
after Giacometti’s death”, but his career was cut short when
he was crushed, aged 40, by a large granite sculpture on
which he was working in his Paris studio.Richard Avedon,
Blue Cloud Wright,
slaughterhouse
worker, Omaha,
Nebraska,
August 10 (1979)
PHOTOGRAPHS, PHILLIPS,
LONDON, 3 NOVEMBER
ESTIMATE £60,000-£80,000Blood-drenched and unlinching,
Richard Avedon’s slaughterhouse
worker, from his dark 1980s series
In the American West, is the sort of
uncompromising image that appealed
to the cinematic eye of video and
ilm producer Georges Bermann,
who has consigned the work to
auction. Bermann’s irst photography
acquisition, made more than 25 years
ago, was Irving Penn’s 1982 work
Lipstick Chunks. Bermann swiftly
progressed to the arresting works by
Avedon and Robert Mapplethorpe,
then relatively unknown, before
moving on to Annie Leibovitz,
Dennis Hopper and Nick Knight
among others.Camille Pissarro, Les Baigneuses
gardeuses d’oies (around 1895)OLD MASTER THROUGH MODERN PRINTS, SWANN, NEW YORK, 3 NOVEMBER
ESTIMATE $15,000-$20,0000A consummate colourist in his paintings, Camille Pissarro was perpetually frustrated by the limitations of colour in
printmaking. His son recalled that he “frankly hated printing ‘à la poupée’, when numerous colours are printed on
the same plate at the same time. Instead, he preferred to use each colour on a di erent plate, one after the other.
Inevitably, the struggle to achieve perfect results frustrated him and he gave up. But the imperfections of those
few surviving experiments, such as this one, lend that same soft shimmering light as his paintings.Romuald Hazoumè,
Azonto (2013)ORIGINS AND TRAJECTORIES:
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART,
PIASA, PARIS, 17 NOVEMBER
ESTIMATE €14,000-€18,000As the market for African art continues to grow, Piasa
is holding its third sale of contemporary art in Paris, a
city known for its love of classical African art. Many of
the 50 artists included—such as Aboudia and Romuald
Hazoumè—now have international reputations.
Hazoumè is one of a generation of artists reinterpreting
classical African art. His instantly recognisable masks,
made from the discarded plastic petrol cans ubiquitous
in his native Benin, call to mind traditional ceremonial
masks. Hazoumè started making the tongue-in-cheek
series in the mid-1980s, and they rose to prominence at
Saatchi Gallery’s Out of Africa show in 1992.SAUPIQUE: COURTESY OF ARTCURIAL. SKLAVOS: COURTESY OF BONHAMS. HAZOUMÈ: COURTESY OF PIASA. PISSARRO: COURTESY OF SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES. AVEDON: COURTESY OF PHILLIP
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