Our departments

FauveParis appraises, authenticates and sells your most precious objects in more than 20 specialities and, when further research is required, calls on the most recognised experts in their field.

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Modern & contemporary art

Our Modern & Contemporary Art department, one of the most active in the firm, holds numerous records for paintings, sculptures, prints (lithographs, serigraphs, etchings, engravings, etc.), tapestries and photographs by the greatest names in the graphic arts: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism (Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Gustave Caillebotte, Alfred Sisley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Frantisek Kupka, Fauvism…), Orientalism from North Africa and the Levant (Jacques Majorelle, Etienne Dinet, David Roberts, Daoud Corm…. ), Abstraction (Pierre Soulages, Zao Wou Ki, Chu Teh Chun, Jean-Michel Riopelle, Vieira Da Silva, Serge Poliakoff, Hans Hartung, Nicolas De Staël, Jean Dewasne, Georges Braque, Le Corbusier, Cubism… ), Kinetics (Cruz-Diez, Julio Le Parc, Yacov Aagam, Nicolas Schöffer, Takis…), Surrealism & Art Brut (Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Ossip Zadkine, Fernand Léger, Mario Prassinos, Foujita, Jean Dubuffet, Dado, Bernard Réquichot, André Breton, Gaston Chaissac, Dadaism, the School of Paris…), Nouveaux Réalistes & Figuration Narrative (Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, César, Arman, Christo, Jacques de La Villéglé, Gérard Schlosser, Peter Klasen, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Alecos Fassianos, Pierre Alechinsky, Antonio Segui, François-Xavier Lalanne… ), CoBrA & raw expressionists (Asger Jorn, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Corneille, Bengt Lindström, John Christoforou, Alkis Pierrakos…), Pop Art (Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Sol Lewitt, Alex Katz, Allen Jones, David Hockney, Richard Orlinski…)…

François-Xavier Lalanne, Lamb, 2001 – Sold for €110,490

For more information or for a free estimate, please contact:
Dimitri Joannidès, specialist
+33 (0)1 55 28 33 68
djoannides@fauveparis.com

Several times a month, FauveParis showcases the finest furniture, lighting and objects by the best master glassmakers, ceramists, cabinetmakers, designers, upholsterers and decorators of the 20th century: Art Nouveau (Louis Majorelle, Emile Gallé, Daum, René Lalique, Bugatti…), Art Deco (Eileen Gray, Jean Dunand, Jean Dupas, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Jean-Michel Frank, Paul Dupré-Lafon, André Arbus, Eugène Printz, stingray… ), 1950s Modernism (Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Jean Prouvé, Serge Mouille, Line Vautrin, Max Ingrand, Maison Jansen, Maison Baguès… ), Memphis (Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi, Michele De Lucchi, Martine Bedin, Nathalie Du Pasquier…), Scandinavian (Alvar Aalto, Verner Panton, Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Tapiovaara, Poul Kjaerholm, Severin Hansen, Finn Juhl… ), contemporary design (Elisabeth Garouste, Mattia Bonetti, Maria Pergay, Gio Ponti, Gaetano Pesce, Ron Arad, Ado Chale…), special commissions from decorators (Jacques Grange, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Roberto Rida…).

René Lalique (1860-1945), Rhinoceros Scarab beaker in crystal, silver and enamel (1897-1899) – Sold for €206,250

For more information or for a free estimate, please contact:
Cédric Melado, auctioneer
+33 (0)1 55 28 33 65
cmelado@fauveparis.com

Ancient arts

FauveParis has won numerous record prices for paintings & drawings, furniture, gold & silver, exceptional bibliophily, liturgical and religious objects, ivories, ceramics, tapestries and natural history specimens from the Haute Epoque to the end of the 19th century: archaeology (Gandhara, Roman Empire, Magna Graecia, Mesopotamia…), Flemish, French & Italian masters (Italian Renaissance, Dutch painting, Ecole de Fontainebleau, Neapolitan gouaches… ), Indo-Portuguese art (Jesus and the Good Shepherd, powder pears, Gujarat mother-of-pearl, Goa ivory, Indian Company porcelain, etc.), 18th and 19th century art objects (Louis XV cartels, Louis XVI mirrors, Empire consoles, Directoire inkwells, Napoleon III marquetry, neo-Gothic chandeliers, etc. ), 19th-century masters (Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Romanticism, Realism, Camille Corot, Horace Vernet…), books & manuscripts (The Encyclopaedia by Diderot and d’Alembert, incunabula, illuminations, first editions of Céline & Marcel Proust, letters & manuscripts by Alexandre Dumas, Emile Zola, Victor Hugo…)…

Surroundings of Alonso Berruguete (1486-1561), Valladolid School. Large carved softwood panel depicting the Circumcision, mid-16th century – Sold for €100,000

For more information or for a free estimate, please contact:
Cédric Melado, auctioneer
+33 (0)1 55 28 33 65
cmelado@fauveparis.com

Jewels & watches

FauveParis has a strong experience in appraising and selling jewellery, and organises two jewellery auctions a month, with dazzling results and over 85% of lots sold: jewellery by the leading jewellers on Place Vendôme (necklaces, bracelets, brooches and earrings by Cartier, Boucheron, Van Cleef & Arpels, etc.), artists’ creations (Niki de Saint-Phalle, Arman, Takis, Pol Burry, etc.), luxury leather goods (bags, squares and trunks by Vuitton, Hermès, Dior, Chanel etc.), luxury watches & pens (Rolex, Omega, IWC, Chopard, Montblanc, S. T. Dupont etc.) as well as gold bars and coins (Louis d’or, Napoleons etc.), precious stones (diamonds, emeralds, rubies etc.)…

2.84 carat diamond, set in platinum (950‰) and white gold (18K, 750‰) – Sold for €29,400

Wines & spirits

Several times a month, FauveParis celebrates the bottles, Jeroboam, Mathusalem, Salmanazar, Balthazar, Nabuchodonozor of the great growths and vintages of Bordeaux (Mouton-Rothschild, Margaux, Latour, Petrus, Haut-Brion, Cheval Blanc, Yquem, Pomerol… ), Burgundy (Romanée-Conti, Côte de Nuits…), the Rhône Valley (Châteauneuf-du-Pape, La Turque…), Champagne (Dom Pérignon, Roederer, Ruinart, Moët & Chandon…) as well as rare vintages of Whisky, Cognac, Armagnac, Port

Petrus, Pomerol, 12 bottles, 1995 – Sold for €26,924

For more information or for a free estimate, please contact:
Simon Barjou-Morant, auctioneer
+33 (0)1 55 28 80 94
sbm@fauveparis.com

Asian art

Buoyed by the vitality of the Asian market, the auctions organised by FauveParis attract an ever-growing number of very active buyers from China and Japan, as well as from the countries of the former Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Siam, etc.), Thailand, Burma and Indonesia: Ceramics, porcelain & terracotta (Tang, Ming, Song, Yuan, Quing, Qianlong, Shang, Zhou…), Jewellery & ornaments (jade, ivory, coral, amber, lacquer… ), Statues & ritual objects (seals, brushwashers, rhinoceros horn, Noh masks, katana, tsuba…), Prints & paintings (Mai-Thu, Le Pho, Vu Cao Dam, souvenirs of the colonial administration…)…

Wanli box in blue and white enamelled porcelain with the “hundred children” design – Sold for €128,000

 

For more information or for a free estimate, please contact:
Cédric Melado, auctioneer
+33 (0)1 55 28 33 65
cmelado@fauveparis.com

Civilisations

The civilisations of Africa, Oceania and America are particularly well represented in our sales. These arts, sometimes referred to as primitive or primitive art, are precious testimonies to the expression of human genius in the four corners of the world: French-speaking Africa (Dogon, Yombé, Baoulé, Ibeji, Songye, Nok, Kwele…), the former British and Portuguese colonies (Tshokwé, Samburu, Yoruba… ), North America (Katchina, Lakota, traditional art of Indian reserves…), Mesoamerica & pre-Columbian arts (Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca…), Oceania & the Pacific (Sepik, Asmat, Yuat…)…

Ibedji-Yoruba, Tshokwé, Dan, Lobi, Oshe Shango-Yoruba objects – Sold between €1,000 and €3,000

 

For more information or for a free estimate, please contact:
Cédric Melado, auctioneer
+33 (0)1 55 28 33 65
cmelado@fauveparis.com

Comics & Collectibles

Since the resounding Glénat sale organised in 2016 for the 50th anniversary of the famous publisher of Titeuf, FauveParis has become a must for all lovers of the 9th art, whether it’s rare albums, limited editions, first editions or, of course, original plates: Comics (Franquin and his Gaston Lagaffe, Uderzo with Asterix and Obelix, Hugo Pratt and his Corto Maltese, Hergé with Tintin and Snowy, Don Rosa, Walt Disney, Sunrise, Warner Bros…), Manga (Toriyama, Tezuka, Toei…. In the same vein, older children with Peter Pan syndrome will also find rare vintage toys in our sales, from tin cars to dolls and model boats: 1950s Japan (Masuyama, Yonezawa, Takatoku, etc.) pre-war Europe (JEP, Bing, Lehmann, Marklin, Joustra, etc.)… Finally, FauveParis has developed a unique speciality of aerospace artefacts (NASA, Esa, Soviet divers, Moon dust, models of demilitarised ballistic missile wind tunnels, Apollo XI capsule bolts, dedications from Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Youri Gagarin…)…

André Franquin, Gastonomie & Poésie, 1971 – Sold for €29,210

For more information or for a free estimate, please contact:
Dimitri Joannidès, specialist
+33 (0)1 55 28 33 68
djoannides@fauveparis.com