Null "Oil on canvas 97.5 x 130 cm Restorations. The painting by Peter Paul Ruben…

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"Oil on canvas 97.5 x 130 cm Restorations. The painting by Peter Paul Rubens is kept in Florence at the Pitti Palace

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"Oil on canvas 97.5 x 130 cm Restorations. The painting by Peter Paul Rubens is kept in Florence at the Pitti Palace

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Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

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Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 9L.A.S. "LF" or "LFC" (a "LFCéline"), [Korsør January-February 1950], to his friend the publisher Jean-Gabriel Daragnès; 35pages in-fol. Long letters before his trial (February 21). 3rd [January]. "Oh oui mon cher vieux, ça pue. The Drappier [magistrate] is fiddling with an express knot rope, where I'll be hanged in the greatest silence. It won't do me much good to go round afterwards, the damage will be done, and at my age and in my condition, definitively. [...] Is this the Dreyfus trial in Samedi-Soir? Not a word of truth! Burlesque enormities to flatter the jackals! I'm the one who had St Malo wiped out!"... He talks about his stays in Saint-Malo and Rennes, where his daughter was born... There's "especially literary hatred" against him, especially from Mauriac, "a 'bad priest' a 'gnawed faggot who never dared'", and from Mac Orlan, a contributor to La Continentale... "There has to be someone impaled in Literature. That would be me. Then everyone will breathe!"... 16th [January]. "I knew you were a hell of an artist, but now you've got me in a statue enough to make the entire Maison de la Culture burst! It has to be copied and distributed... "The bad thing is that it's also going to make my jackals' hatred sizzle in an atomic way! The Drappier is going to flinch, he's going to PoncePilater me and one way or another. Fear of the Commies petrifies the bourgeoisie and their magistrates. They stand before Humanité like rabbits before Python. They're waiting to be eaten alive"... January 23. "It's a conviction by order - so there's nothing to chew on. [...] I'll receive this indictment and reply [...] but it won't change a thing. They're clinging to imaginary ass hairs of crime. I've replied to Seltensperger a thousand times, and he advised that the case be dismissed. He had to withdraw... The hired youtrons, the industrialists of the Épuration will never let me go. Well, we can try to piss them off, that's all"... 30th [January]. "The infamy campaign is in full swing! All the jackals are barking!" Reaction to an article by Roger Vailland, who deplores "not having shot me down on my own staircase - without further ado - with his own brand of justice, above the law. He promises to do better next time. He writes it down. He denies Vailland's testimony, having never received the journalists (Laubreaux, Brasillach, Cousteau...) from Je suis partout at his home... February 4th. "Your deposition plan seems excellent to me, but perhaps a little ideological - would you add that I am a pacifist French patriot. That war for me is the most horrible catastrophe. That I thought the Jews, certain Jewish publicists, were launching us into war, and that I reacted in my own outrageous, burlesque way - but I never stopped anyone from replying to me in the same ink that I was bullshitting. I don't write the gospel! I didn't call for the death of any Jew - I asked them to temper their hysteria and not to launch us into a war that I judged to be lost in advance, and which would be the final annihilation of France. [...] Do I have two homelands like the Jews? [...] I only care about the French Patriote Patriote Patriote pacifist - that's all, absolutely all. I didn't give a damn about Hitler or Blum. [...] I'm from the land of Couperin, of Vallès - not at all Germanizing oh la la the horror!"... Etc. Friday 10th [February]. He rectifies his defense according to Me Naud's instructions, and has a medical certificate drawn up. He gives details of his work at the Bezons dispensary, a back-breaking and poorly paid chore; he never wanted to take Dr. Hogarth's place, it was Dr. Hogarth who wanted to leave... February 11th. Lemaître must testify that he "saw and heard me insulting collaborating doctors"... February 14th. "The pot is boiling and I'm going to be thrown into it on the 21st. All those "Hitler's ungrateful" who would be nothing, who would never have been anything, without the coming of this Walkherian madman, the builders, the suppliers, the 20 million real collaborators, those, more or less, earthy asses with washing machines, prefects of the Resistance and other Farges Vercors and consorts, they need my carne my remains to pass the monstrous nutmeg: of them nothing at all little shits become, by Hitler's grace, immense heroes, artistissimes patriotissimes!"Etc. 16th [February]. "What's it all about in the end? Whether I collaborated? You can't let yourself

Estim. 600 000 - 800 000 EUR

Kazuo SHIRAGA (1924-2008) Sakuhin, 1962 Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1962 lower right 130 x 162.5 cm PROVENANCE : - Artist's studio - Galerie STADLER, Paris (label on back) - Private collection, Nice NOTE: - Several radical avant-garde art movements emerged in Japan in the 1950s, including the Gutai ("body as instrument") movement, a shifting group from 1955 to 1972, theorized and founded by Yoshihara Jirô (1905-1972). - Gutai painting is born of a living gesture, densified by the force of "chi", a vital and spiritual energy whose intensity manifests itself in shapes and colors laid down in a rapid, impulsive and carnal gesture. A performance art that places as much importance on the physical action that presides over the creation of the work, as on the result itself, revealing the density of the original material. - Kazuo Shiraga, one of the emblematic figures of Gutaï, of which he has been a member since 1955, advocates a physical rediscovery of the elements: "Gutai art does not transform or divert matter; it brings it to life". After the abyss of defeat in the Second World War and the disasters of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was necessary to overcome the trauma of horror and achieve resilience. "My art is not influenced by my experience at the front. I only saw people covered in blood. I only saw the victims of war, and Osaka completely devastated. Many people, smeared with blood, soot and mud, came to Osaka Castle for help... I saw many bombed-out landscapes, people wailing, others immobilized, traumatized, people bleeding, people even on the verge of death. These memories materialized in my work" (in Ming Tiampo, op.cit., 2003, p. 177). - Kazuo Shiraga deposits an abundance of colored oil on a canvas placed on the floor, then, clinging to a rope installed on the ceiling of his studio, he glides at will with his feet over the surface with a real impression of velocity. "I tried it bare-handed, with the fingers of my hand. Then, convinced that I had to go further and further, I went further and further, and as I went, I found the feet. That was it! Peindre avec les pieds" (in Shiraga Kazuo, "Koi koo5o" (The very act), Clllui, no. 3, October 1955). - Kazuo Shiraga's rapid movements follow a precise, deliberate rhythm, tracing complex networks of interlacing and dynamic grooves that transcribe "chi". Combined with the effects of gravitational force, this pictorial material overkill is invested with all the bodily energy and spiritual forces at play. The viewer enters the beyond-matter of a painting that has become action and pure expressive outpouring, an aesthetic of surpassing and testimony to an encounter between body and matter. - 1962, the year our canvas was created, was a turning point for Shiraga, whose international career finally took off. The Stadler gallery in Paris hosted his first solo exhibition outside Japan - a group show had taken place in 1959 - after he had been discovered by art critic Michel Tapié in Osaka in 1957. This painting was certainly one of them (faded label on back of Galerie Stadler, 51 rue de Seine - 75006 Paris. Probable exhibition: "Shiraga", Galerie Stadler, Paris, January 26 - February 22, 1962). Prior registration is required to bid on this lot. Please contact us on +33 (0)1.40.20.02.82 or [email protected]. As a registration is required to bid on this lot, please contact us : +33 (0)1.40.20.02.82 or [email protected]

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

MURAT (Joachim). Set of 3 signed letters to Claude-Louis Lecomte. Hesdin, 1793. - October 6, 1793. " ... I have worked on the items you requested, you will find them enclosed. Take advantage of the weapons I'm putting in your hands; harass me until you get what you want. You say you need the cross and banner to get in, so use them. If that's not enough, add the stoup and the goupillon, then YOU'LL EXORCISE THE DEVIL; this ceremony done, you'll get the better of him and do whatever you want with him; but no more jokes... You will see by one of the two letters we are writing to the minister..." (2 pp. in-4 and one line). - 26th vendemiaire year II [October 17, 1793]. " ... The regiment needs a general overhaul, the arduous service performed by the war squadrons requires a major reform... It is very unfortunate that, because some individuals in the regiment refuse to render accounts, we see ourselves frustrated even of the indispensable... I HAVE MY NOTICE LETTER FOR SQUADRON LEADER. I have given all my service records. MY FRIEND, THE REPUBLIC IS IN DANGER, Landrieux commands six thousand men at Pont-à-Marck...". He also mentions the horses needed for the officers, the presence of a trumpet major as an instructor, the need for two seals with the regimental number and "the escutcheon of the goddess of Liberty" (3 pp. folio, a few tears with a few words missing). - 14 brumaire an II [November 4, 1793]. " ... You will never cease to have friends and brothers in us... Landrieux may be trying to work me; but my conduct responds in advance to the attack and my cons[c]ience lets me sleep easy;... tell citizen Lefèvre that WE ARE TRUE MONTAGNARDS, I DON'T... M'APPELLE PLUS MURAT; MAIS MARAT, LES REPRESENTANS DU PEUPLE VIENNENT DE M'AUTORISER A QUITTER UN NOM QUE JE PORTOIS AVEC HORREUR... " (one p. 1/4 in-folio; spotting and soiling, a few marginal tears). MURAT, OFFICER OF THE TERRORIST REPUBLIC AND FUTURE KING OF NAPLES. Then squadron leader in the Armée du Nord, the future marshal and future sovereign took part in operations against the Austrians. Noticed by brigade commander Jean Landrieux, "an ambiguous character [...] specialized - thanks to the war - in soliciting wrecks and declassed men for the armies of the Republic [...], Murat was entrusted with the training of 300 'poacher' hussars [...], a motley band which, thanks to the grace of the Minister of War, became the 21st Chasseurs". He soon came into conflict with Landrieux, who falsely accused him of being an aristocrat, but escaped without damage. On the other hand, he was an exalted patriot, openly favorable to the regime of the Terror, and at one point even wanted to change his name from Murat to Marat. He was denounced after the 9th of Thermidor, and only saved thanks to the intervention of Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac, deputy for Lot, his native department.

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