On 24 October, alongside Art Basel Paris Art Week, Artcurial will offer at auction the collection of Louis Grandchamp des Raux, A Shared Modernity, a testament to a gaze at once exacting and sensitive, shaped over twenty years of passionate collecting.
Bringing together nearly seventy-five works by forty-four artists, this remarkably cohesive collection traverses the great movements that defined French and Belgian painting from the late 19th to the mid- 20th century: from Impressionism to Symbolism, from the Nabis to the Pont-Aven School, through to the chromatic explosion embodied by Bonnard.
Among the highlights of the sale, L’île Chevalier by Maurice Denis, the leading lot estimated at €700,000 – 1,000,000, La petite fenêtre by Pierre Bonnard (est. €550,000 – 750,000) and Misia Natanson dans les bois by Édouard Vuillard (est. €450,000 – 650,000) represent the pinnacle of a collection in which masterworks and discoveries sit alongside one another with equal elegance.