On Thursday October 26 at 5pm, PIASA is organizing a sale of ceramics, rugs and tapestries by artists. Comprising 100 lots, the sale focuses on lissier and ceramic creations produced exclusively by visual artists. It includes sets of works by major figures on the 20th century art scene, such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau and Sonia and Robert Delaunay, for whom weaving and modeling were as important as drawing, painting and sculpture.
Comprising both editions and one-offs, this sale's selection showcases tapestry and ceramics, practices that were originally dedicated to craftsmanship, and which were taken up by some of the 20th century's greatest artists. The artist Fernand Léger is represented by half a dozen ceramics with enamelled polychrome decoration, whose relief plays remarkably with light, including a unique piece.
PIASA is also organizing a sale of French design from the Pascal Cuisinier collection on Thursday October 26 at 7pm. Comprising 121 lots, the sale catalog is a highly representative sample of the design collection of gallery owner and collector Pascal Cuisinier. The selection offers an in-depth look at the French design scene that developed in the 1950s, when the country was in the throes of reconstruction. It includes creations - lighting fixtures, seats, tables, storage units... - by designers such as Robert Mathieu, Pierre Guariche, Joseph-André Motte, André Monpoix, Janine Abraham & Dirk Jan Rol... who Pascal Cuisinier has been exhibiting in his gallery for some twenty years.
