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Hôtel des ventes de Metz, 43, rue Dupont-des-Loges 57000 Metz, France
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Lot 39 - Jean-Claude FAHRI, born 1940 in Paris, died 2012 in Monaco Composition - Relief 3L3, 1965 Paint and mixed media in relief Signed, titled and dated on back 122 x 203 (small accidents) Provenance: Estate of a major southern collector Jean-Claude FAHRI's paintings and compositions are rare on the market, particularly such a relief from 1965, produced quite early in the output of this major 20th-century artist. In 1957, he moved to Nice, where he took drawing classes at the Arts Décoratifs de Nice. Here he met the leading artists of the École de Nice: Ben, Gilli Alocco, Malaval and the New Realists Arman and Raysse, who introduced him to the critic Pierre Restany. In 1965/1966, he worked on "Motorcolors", followed by sculptures in Plexiglas and metal. For a time, he worked with César. From 1968 onwards (exhibition at Galerie Iris Clert), he devoted himself mainly to Plexiglas sculptures (with the support of the "Polivar" factories): columns and disks, pyramids, and then so-called "variable geometry" sculptures. It was in this direction that he developed his work with monumental works. Claude Fournet, former director of the Museums of Nice, comments: "His mastery of plastic materials, which was the primary element of his research, is combined with a functionality of form that he borrows from the world of Futurism and the Bauhaus. It is with this deviation that all artists today are founded, an act of playful appropriation that masterfully places Jean-Claude Farhi in the line of the Nouveaux-Réalistes when, playing with shapes in his highly colored material, he offers us sculptures that are so many outlines, drawn in the light of pure color. The artist is represented in numerous museums and private collections in Europe, America and Asia, and has been commissioned by the French government on several occasions.

Estim. 3 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lot 40 - Jean LE MOAL (1909-2007) Composition, 1983, reworked in 1988 Oil on canvas, signed lower right, countersigned and dated on the back 33 x 34 cm - 13 x 13 ¼ in. This work is in the archives of Monsieur Michel-Georges Berna Provenance: private collection Luxembourg Jean Le Moal is considered one of the leading exponents of French non-figuration in the second half of the 20th century, in a body of work that transcends aesthetic divisions. Alongside Bertholle, Bissière and Manessier, Jean Le Moal exhibited with the "Témoignage" group, led by Marcel Michaud, which brought together painters, sculptors, musicians and writers, at its first show in 1936 at the Salon d'Automne in Lyon, then in Paris in 1938 and 1939. The emergence of this new style enabled Le Moal to approach the marine element differently, like the metamorphoses of light throughout the cycle of the seasons. The last punctuation marks that used to run through his canvases as lines of force soon fade and disappear, as the strokes pass into one another in vibrant bangs that finally dissolve all linear structure. "More and more, I feel the need to draw through the brushstroke and from within the form", he confides at the time. In the élan of unstable masses of color traversed by the ravines of a now dynamic graphic style, his canvases seem to show, beyond the spectacles of "naturified" nature, the mobile interplay of the elemental energies of a continually "naturating" nature. Building on the impetus of his 1974 exhibition at the Galerie de France, Jean Le Moal continued his research into familiar themes, marine and terrestrial spaces. During these years, in parallel with his constant work in stained glass, he multiplied what he familiarly called his "Small Formats", on which he worked until the early 2000s. "Le Moal's art is an example of the contribution of the language of abstraction to French painting, or conversely of the contribution of French painting to abstract art. He submits neither to the pure expression of form, nor to a purely subjective message: a human and communicative art, his beauty and inner quality broaden our perception of life. "Hans-Friedrich Geist (1961)

Estim. 3 000 - 5 000 EUR