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Lot 17 - Lucien Coutaud (1904-1977) - Surrealist composition 1968 Oil on canvas signed and dated lower left 58 x 70 cm Provenance: > Private collection, Paris Condition report : Framed "Lucien Coutaud is little known. Yet he was one of the most singular and prolific painters of the 20th century. He mastered every technique and excelled in every field, as his work testifies, comprising almost two thousand paintings and gouaches, as many drawings, twenty-nine tapestries (as part of the first generation of artists involved in the revival of Aubusson tapestry, Coutaud occupies a singular place, by his deliberately limited production, his refusal of numbering, his large-scale cartoons, always done in gouache, and his choice of subjects always in keeping with his pictorial world, inspired by music, games and magic), nearly one hundred copper etchings, twenty-nine lithographs, twenty-five set and costume designs for theater and opera (from his first collaboration with Charles Dullin, in 1928, until 1972, Coutaud never stopped working with the greatest directors and choreographers of his time, who called on his sense of the magical and the monumental, his attraction to the baroque and onirism), forty-three illustrated books, from André Fraigneau, in 1925, to Pauline Réage and her Histoire d'O, in 1972, via Voltaire, Alfred Jarry, Arthur Rimbaud, Maurice Blanchard, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Gilbert Lely, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Claudel, Hemingway, Proust and Jules Laforgue. Lucien Coutaud invented Eroticomagie, a form of painting that is the direct language of the mind, activating both our consciousness and our emotions. The images present themselves to us charged with desires and anxieties, demanding a dazzling materialization of space; they break through the worn-out frames of reality... (...) It has to be said that Coutaldi's work, like that of the Surrealists, is a continuous exploration of the dream state, in order to discover its true limits, which are far too blurred in literature and painting, and too restricted in psychology. The real does exist for Coutaud, as Alain Bosquet would later point out. The sea is a sea, the beach is sand, the bread is yeast, the bull bleeds, the houses resemble those of Nîmes; but the dream never ceases to develop at the same time, to impregnate, to merge with reality; the dream with its procession of adorable obsessions: superimposed flowers form beings between woman and idol; mirrors and shells change function, some retaining a beloved landscape whatever the object reflected in it, and others hesitating between metamorphosis and perpetuated enigma. From this kind of dream we can deduce a kind of rule, of which Coutaud is the master in his own right. It is possible, for example, to deny gravity, the constitution of matter, universal gravitation, when observing a figure whose torso is detached from the rest of his body. Through dreams, reality is rehabilitated. Let's not forget either that Coutaud drew and painted Dormeurs throughout his work: figures whose eyeless heads, in 1946, came to resemble melocactus (melon-shaped cactus), as if to insist on the omnipotence of dreams understood as absolute reality and protected from the outside world by powerful thorns...". (Christophe Dauphin, excerpts from Lucien Coutaud, le peintre de l'Eroticomagie, ed. Rafael de Surtis, 2009)

Estim. 2 500 - 3 500 EUR

Lot 27 - Togroul Narimanbekov (1928-2013) (ТОГРУЛ НАРИМАНБЕКО) - St. Basil's Cathedral (diptych) 1973 Oil on canvas signed and dated upper left in Cyrillic, mounted on board, countersigned and titled in Cyrillic on the back. 170 x 184 cm Provenance: > Union of Artists of the USSR, label on back. > Художественный салон по экспорту ХФ СССР (art salon for the export of the artistic philosophy of the USSR) label on back > Galerie de France, label on back Condition report: framed Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani painter and singer, was born in Baku. He is the first artist from his country to appear in France's encyclopedia of contemporary art. His artistic career is steeped in exceptional cultural diversity. Trained at the Azimzade School of Art in Baku, Narimanbekov continued his studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Vilnius. In the 1960s, he introduced innovative art forms to Azerbaijan, breaking with the canons of fine art imposed by Soviet ideology. His approach and style, totally at odds with the aesthetic criteria of socialist realism, laid the foundations for the Absheron school of painting. Alongside Ashraf Murad, Javad Mirjavadov, Tofig Javadov, Rasim Babayev, Kamal Akhmedov and Gennady Brijatyuk, he contributed to the emergence of a new art that flourished after the fall of the Soviet Union. Togrul Narimanbekov's work is characterized by a singular fusion of Azeri and European artistic traditions, combining abstract and figurative elements. Traditional ornamental motifs merge into swirling, brightly-colored compositions that evoke the traditions of Azerbaijani art. His impasto paintings are often imbued with a surreal dimension, oscillating between joyful and melancholy emotions, dancing and singing. Narimanbekov was named People's Artist of Azerbaijan in 1967 and received the USSR State Prize in 1980. He ended his life between Paris and Baku, passing away in the City of Light in 2013. The work presented here honors the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, a 16th-century masterpiece emblematic of traditional Russian architecture. Located on Moscow's Red Square, this monument is famous for its colorful curves, whose shape and palette recall Togrul's swirling compositions and vivid colors. (MLD)

Estim. 3 000 - 5 000 EUR

Lot 44 - Huguette Caland (1931-2019) - Composition circa 2002-2003 Mixed media on cut-out canvas, signed, titled and annotated on back 11 x 17 cm Provenance: > Gift of the artist to Samy Kinge, Galerie Iolas Paris Condition report : Framed Huguette Caland is a Lebanese painter, sculptor and fashion designer. In 1943, at the age of 12, she saw her father, Béchara el-Khoury, become President of Lebanon. As an only child, she was destined to become a devoted wife according to Lebanese traditions, but she felt a deep desire for freedom. She married a Frenchman, Paul Caland, nephew of one of her father's political rivals, and had several other love affairs. At the age of 30, Huguette Caland decided to study art at the American University of Beirut. She befriended Helen Khal, who founded the One gallery in Beirut and exhibited Caland's work alongside that of other leading figures of Lebanese modernism such as Etel Adnan, Simone Fattal and Shafic Abboud. In 1970, faced with the lack of understanding of her paintings in Lebanon, Huguette Caland left everything behind and moved to Paris. There, she began her famous Bribes de corps series and met major artistic figures such as André Masson, Pierre Schaeffer and Adalberto Mecarelli. In 1979, she collaborated with the famous couturier Pierre Cardin to create unique caftans. While in Paris, she met Romanian sculptor George Apostu, with whom she married and collaborated artistically. On the sculptor's death, Caland moved to Los Angeles, where her Venice studio became a meeting place for renowned artists such as Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses, Ken Price and Nancy Rubins. (MLD)

Estim. 7 000 - 10 000 EUR

Lot 73 - Zemba Luzamba (né en 1973) - Dice pro Acrylic on canvas signed and dated lower right, countersigned, titled and dated on back 60 x 49.5 cm "There's a bit of politics in my work, but I play with that, so it's not too serious. If you look at my paintings, you'll see that I've played with elegance and lifestyle, with some references to politics and social commentary. In the Congo, certain men, known as Sapeurs, tend to pretend that they are richer than they are by following a culture of elegance in the way they dress. This is a superficial management of personal image, but also an expression of aspiration. In Congolese society, there are certain things we never talk about - big problems hidden under a facade. So I've followed this trend, and the sense of what can only be seen on the surface has influenced some of the work I've done recently. My images also include political events in South Africa. I don't speak too loudly, but softly in my own way. However, not all my works aim to show political movements; some simply try to highlight the politics of the life we live in." Zemba Luzamba, a painter originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, lives and practices his art in South Africa. His work is deeply marked by his experience as an African migrant. His narrative paintings, in which the people depicted are often not real, are intriguing because of the lack of specificity conferred on the subjects and the shallowness of the pictorial space. His compositions tell tales of ordinary life, featuring characters almost always dressed in Western clothing. (MLD)

Estim. 1 500 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 88 - JonOne (né en 1963) - Untitled (ephemeral hospital period) 1990 Acrylic on canvas signed and dated on back 80 x 80 cm Condition report: Framed John Perello began tagging the subways of his native New York under the name Jon156. He soon renamed himself JonOne. With his graffiti friends Rac7 and Kyle, he founded the 156 All Starz collective. Now living in Paris, with a strong attachment to urban art, he transposes the freedom, colors, vitality and techniques of graffiti onto canvas, exploring the practices of American action painting and European lyrical abstraction. This painting is part of the Hôpital éphémère project, launched in Paris in 1990 by Caroline Andrieux and Christophe Pasquet. The then-abandoned Bretonneau hospital in the 18th arrondissement was transformed into an arts center, with artists' studios, exhibition halls, workshops, recording studios, concert halls, dance and theater studios... The project lasted 7 years and enabled 200 artists to express and showcase their art. Among them was JonOne, who painted his first canvases here. "I had no artistic education. When I was tagging trains in New York, I couldn't imagine that one day I'd be expressing myself on canvas. What really got me into tagging was seeing other people painting graffiti all over the city. The school I went to was very strict. And so boring! I remember that back then, people on the street had freedom. I didn't want what America offered me: a job, a nice suit and a pretty house. I met A-One (Anthony Clark 1964-2001). He used to hang out with Jean-Michel Basquiat (Brooklyn, New-York, December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988). A-One was the link between the street and the art world. He would travel to Europe and come back with a lot of money, simply because of his art. I'd listen to his travel tales and my eyes would sparkle with envy. Back then in New York, I was like a lot of people today: I hung out in front of my apartment building. In those days, I didn't leave my neighborhood either. Thanks to A-One, I began to take my work seriously, to see it not as vandalism but simply as art."

Estim. 8 000 - 12 000 EUR