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Lot 24 - Jean Criton (1930-2022) La Nuit gonflable 1971 Oil on canvas signed and dated lower right, titled on back 130 x 97 cm Jean Criton was born in Paris in 1930. At just 17, he entered the Charpentier academy, where he befriended Bernard Réquichot. In 1950, they tied for first place at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Initially influenced by Jacques Villon and Vieira da Silva, by 1956 he was fully committed to lyrical abstraction - and successfully so! He then bought a house in the Luberon with his wife, also an artist, Dominique d'Acher and his friend Bernard Réquichot... but 1961 marked a definitive turning point: Réquichot committed suicide and Jean Criton discovered the work of Francis Bacon. Little by little, he incorporated figuration into his work, which he never abandoned. Pierre Restany invited him to take part in the Paris Biennial with Martial Raysse, and his works became increasingly colorful, with flesh, eyes and bodies making their appearance. In the 70s, he exhibited alongside the great names of narrative figuration (Monory, Aillaud, Klasen, Rancillac, Stämpfli etc.).) and mutilated body parts appeared in architectural settings that soon gave way to a long series of imaginary buildings and places worthy of the best science-fiction scenarios... soon all that remained were the lines and a return to strict abstraction in the late 1990s. Here, a canvas from 1971, part of a series of works begun in 1961, a period of return to figuration. Here, Jean Criton explores the body and its organs in tight frames, where straps constrain them and fences enclose them. It's a dystopian universe, never seen before and belonging only to the artist, where we admire the precision of the drawing: the perspectives, the reliefs evoking swellings, the shadows, give life to beings that are nonetheless non-existent. Criton dares to predict that, like a science-fiction writer whose writings come true, his canvases could be painted today and proudly displayed on the white walls of contemporary art galleries alongside the most promising young artists!

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 27 - Claude Viseux (1927-2008) Totem with caduceus Collage on paper signed and dated lower right 64 x 49 cm Condition report: Framed Claude Viseux was born and raised in Champagne-sur-Oise, near Paris. In 1946, he studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He then met Jean Prouvé and Constantin Brancusi, and finally decided to turn to painting. Success was almost immediate, with his first exhibition at Galerie Vibaud in 1952, and by 1955 his work was being shown at René Drouin, before Daniel Cordier chose him - for his very first exhibition! - in 1956. In 1957, he was honored by Léo Castelli in New York! The 4 works we are offering in this sale bear witness to these prosperous years. From 1959-1960, he created his first sculptures from objects found on the seashore, impressions of stones and seaweed cast in bronze, then industrial steel cut, assembled and welded, in the manner of his surrealist friends Max Ernst, Man Ray, Henri Michaux... In 1972, he represented the French pavilion at the Venice Biennale, alongside Christian Boltanski, Jean le Gac and Gérard Titus-Carmel, and unveiled his famous Instables series. The same year, he installed an immense stainless steel sculpture suspended in the Auber RER station in Paris. In 1977, to celebrate his 50th anniversary, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris organized an exhibition entitled "Viseux" from June to September. In the '80s and '90s, he travelled extensively in India, whose myths and traditions are subtly reflected in his drawings and collages, and their influence translated into sculpture. A year before his death, while living in Anglet - still close to the water - Claude Viseux continued his collages, blending the marine world with troubling industrial forms - echoes of the Expériences automatiques du crabe (Automatic Crab Experiments) of the 1950s - and the sculptures that mark out his career. In the words of Geneviève Bonnefoi: "Through such diverse research, we can discover in Viseux's work a rather surprising continuity, an indisputable mark of his personality and temperament. He is one of those artists passionate about technique and knowledge who tend towards a total art, the only one capable of expressing the different aspirations of today's man".

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Lot 28 - Claude Viseux (1927-2008) Les Serpents Collage on paper signed and dated lower center 64 x 49 cm Condition report: Framed Claude Viseux was born and raised in Champagne-sur-Oise, near Paris. In 1946, he studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He then met Jean Prouvé and Constantin Brancusi, and finally decided to turn to painting. Success was almost immediate, with his first exhibition at Galerie Vibaud in 1952, and by 1955 his work was being shown at René Drouin, before Daniel Cordier chose him - for his very first exhibition! - in 1956. In 1957, he was honored by Léo Castelli in New York! The 4 works we are offering in this sale bear witness to these prosperous years. From 1959-1960, he created his first sculptures from objects found on the seashore, impressions of stones and seaweed cast in bronze, then industrial steel cut, assembled and welded, in the manner of his surrealist friends Max Ernst, Man Ray, Henri Michaux... In 1972, he represented the French pavilion at the Venice Biennale, alongside Christian Boltanski, Jean le Gac and Gérard Titus-Carmel, and unveiled his famous Instables series. The same year, he installed an immense stainless steel sculpture suspended in the Auber RER station in Paris. In 1977, to celebrate his 50th anniversary, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris organized an exhibition entitled "Viseux" from June to September. In the '80s and '90s, he travelled extensively in India, whose myths and traditions are subtly reflected in his drawings and collages, and their influence translated into sculpture. A year before his death, while living in Anglet - still close to the water - Claude Viseux continued his collages, blending the marine world with troubling industrial forms - echoes of the Expériences automatiques du crabe (Automatic Crab Experiments) of the 1950s - and the sculptures that mark out his career. In the words of Geneviève Bonnefoi: "Through such diverse research, we can discover in Viseux's work a rather surprising continuity, an indisputable mark of his personality and temperament. He is one of those artists passionate about technique and knowledge who tend towards a total art, the only one capable of expressing the different aspirations of today's man".

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Lot 49 - Julião Sarmento (1948-2021) Some Rethorical Structures To Be Identified In This Image 2002 Mixed media on canvas Signed, titled, dated on back 190 x 190 cm Provenance: > Galerie de France, Paris (label on back) > Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (label on back) Bibliography: > Ombres exhibition catalog, Éditions Galerie de France, Paris, 2008 Exhibitions: > Ombres, Galerie de France, Paris, November 8, 2008 - January 24, 2009 > Juliao Sarmento - Silhouettes noires 2002-2003, Galerie de France, Paris, May 19 - July 4, 2009 He is one of the world's best-known Portuguese artists. A pioneer of conceptual art, art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist says he has "changed Portugal", "very few artists transform an entire country". In a Portugal marked by revolution, the visual artist proposes innovative works combining sensuality and transgression. As this painting illustrates, women are at the heart of his thinking. She is merely a faceless silhouette. The focus is on the body. The representation of this body is sometimes stereotyped, as Sarmento seeks to explore the way in which the viewer possesses, sometimes perversely, the subject of the work. Inspired by Michel Foucault and the writings of Maria Gabriela Llansol, Sarmento pushes the limits of the medium. "I believe in negative space, the space outside the frame, as an active space of possibility. After all, to be human is to constantly desire, imagine or create that which we cannot see or experience." Today, his work is exhibited in the world's leading museums (MoMA and Guggenheim in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern in London). (MLD)

Estim. 15 000 - 20 000 EUR
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