PIASA is pleased to announce our upcoming for modern and contemporary art on Tuesday, October 18th.
This sale is part of Contemporary Art Week in Paris within the framework of Paris + by Art Basel. PIASA has put together a sale that is both encyclopedic in nature, in terms of the periods and movements covered, and singular in the choice of works presented. True to PIASA's philosophy, the sale is built around an important body of work by French artists (Gaston Chaissac, César, Jacques Villeglé, Jean-Pierre Raynaud...) and foreign artists (Pavlos, Olivier Mosset, Wifredo Lam...) who have maintained - or still maintain - close relationships with the French scene.
Agustín Cárdenas (1927-2001)
La vierge à l'enfant, 1956
Estimate : 40 000 / 60 000 €
Among the more historical pieces, the sculpture by Cuban artist Agustín Cárdenas evokes the beginnings of his Parisian installation in the 1950s. This wooden piece (lot 4), a noble material in the artist's production, is also new to the market.
Brought back into the spotlight by the Kamel Mennour Gallery, Polish-born artist Maryan S. Maryan stakes her claim here with two works: a highly caricatured painting, marked by his American period in the 1960s, and a self-portrait of the artist, completed in 1951 shortly after his move to the city where he became a precursor of the Nouvelle Figuration.
Maryan S. Maryan (Burstein Pinchas dit) (1927-1977)
Untitled, 1974
Estimate : 30 000 / 40 000 €
The French artist Jacques Monory stands out among this eclectic selection, notably with an oil on canvas: "Peinture à vendre n°8, Facile/2", 1983 (lot 45), a testament to his ambiguous relationship with the transmission of image at a distance (cinema and television) and the use of painting as a medium of resistance.
Jacques Monory (1924-2018)
Peinture à vendre n°8, Facile/2, 1983
Estimate : 45 000 / 55 000 €
Finally, a tribute is paid to the recently deceased Jacques Villeglé, with a work made from torn posters mounted on canvas, a practice common among the poster artists of the Nouveau Réalisme movement.
This selection also offers a look at a more current production with works by artists such as Philippe Ramette, Fabrice Hyber, Mattias Bitzer (on the cover of the catalog), Damien Deroubaix, and more.
Matthias Bitzer (born in 1975)
Modern Idols Series (Ella)
Estimate : 5 000 / 7 000 €
Often celebrated for his portraits, Yan Pei-Ming, an artist of Chinese origin living in Dijon, France since 1980, has also tried his hand at landscape painting. Here, an "international landscape" (lot 52) showing a countryside at night does not refer to any particular site or fact, preferring instead to play with the stereotypes of the genre.
The artist Françoise Pétrovitch stages adolescent figures (lot 55), but again without any particular identity or narrative. Only the fragility of these figures embodies these troubling presences.
Françoise Pétrovitch (born in 1964)
Set of two works
Estimate: 12 000 / 15 000 €
In the final part of the sale, you can find a significant group of works by American artists such as Josh Smith, Keith Tyson, Alex Prager, Robert Heinecken, Mark Hagen, and more.
