64 19th March 2011 international events Hammering home the
WHILE Paris is busy gearing up for Drawings Week and the Château de Gourdon and Weiller sales, the wider French market throws its auction cap in the air right across the country with their annual Week-end au Marteau (Auction Weekend), held this year from March 26 to 27.
This event is organsed by France’s
national association of auctioneers, SYMEV (Syndicat National des Maison de Ventes Volontaires) and its aim is to interest as many members of the general public as possible in the auction process by familiarising them with their local auction house and promoting sales as an alternative way to shop. To this end, the nation’s salerooms
devise all kinds of strategies and promotions to tempt the public to cross their thresholds from publishing stellar or quirky lots to staging charitable events and bargain hunts.
Amongst the special themed events
this time is a charity auction at ArtCurial of 100 bricks decorated by contemporary artists to raise funds to build a school in Madagascar. The bricks will be on view at the Hôtel Dassault over the weekend prior to auction on March 28. Each one has been decorated by a different artist, including Antonio Segui, Enki Bilal and Soulages and is estimated at €500. There is plenty of Fashion and
Couture, including a sale at Chayette et Cheval on March 27 of Christian Lacroix designs for Jean Patou for the 1986 season. Or, for stylish travelling, try a vintage Gucci travelling trunk from Brigitte Fenaux at Jura Enchères, Lons le Saunier also on the 27th. Over in Brittany, auctioneers François
and Sandrine Dupont who left Paris for Morlaix ten years ago, are giving over their weekend to educating the public in a convivial way. They have free access to their reference library, useful lectures like how to recognise a hallmark, and an exhibition of work by Pierre Luc Rousseau, plus a party on Saturday evening.
In Dijon, La Maison Sadde have a
similarly busy programme that includes tea and a mini exhibition for children and a lecture by Jean Rosen on 17th century faience from Nevers. Down South in Marseille, you can try
your chance with dinosaur decor when Leclère recreate a Museum of Natural History for an auction on March 26. There are some individual big hitters
on offer during the auction weekend too. Toulouse has two stars: a Qianlong Imperial scroll at Marc Labarbe shown here and a carved jade seal also from the Qianlong Emperor at Chassaing Marambat both coming up for sale on March 26, while ArtCurial Deauville are selling a second reduction bronze of Rodin’s famous Kiss, cast by Barbedienne c.1916, estimated at €400,000-500,000.
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Right: Vallauris from Christian Lacroix’s 1986 collection for Jean Patou which is to be sold by Chayette et Cheval on March 27 where the dress is estimated at €500-700.
Far right: François et Sandrine Dupont who plan a busy but fun weekend of educational activities in Morlaix.
Left: this fossil featuring two rare captorhinus aguti skeletons, estimate €3000-5000, is part of a selection of natural history specimens on sale at Leclère in Marseille on March 26.
Right: a brick painted by Antonio Segui, one of 100 examples decorated by different contemporary artists, each estimated at €500, to be sold by ArtCurial in their charity auction to help build a school. i
Far right: detail of a rare Imperial scroll from the Qianlong Emperor, measuring 7ft 11in (24.2m) in total length and 2ft 3in (69cm) wide, will be estimated at €3m-4m when it comes up for sale at Marc Labarbe in Toulouse on March 26.
WEEKEND MARTEAU 26th & 27th MARCH Antiques Trade Gazette welcome the following auctioneers to
the-saleroom.com:
Galerie de Chartes, Chartres • Mercier & Cie, Lille Lavoissiere Gueilhers, La Rochelle
Hotel de Ventes de la Haute-Marne, Chaumont SVV Sadde, Dijon • Quai des Encheres, Macon Hotels de Ventes de Toulon, Toulon
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