Lot 2

Keith Haring

This work tells the story of a friendship between François Boisrond, an artist from the Free Figuration movement, and one of the greatest icons of the New York underground scene: Keith Haring. They met for the first time in 1982, during an exhibition organised by Otto Hahn "Statement One", in New York. Since then, whenever Keith Haring came to Paris, he stayed with the Boisrond couple. Always running from one appointment to another, it often happened that Françoise Boisrond dropped him off. One day, the artist surprised her by drawing a flying angel on the bonnet of her Fiat 500!

Lot 13

Yves Klein

This work is the reason why I do this job: to have the joy of having real treasures in my hands! Extremely rare (anthropometries of this format are nowhere to be found), it is an absolute icon of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

Its rarity is also due to the fact that it is a negative print (the artist sprayed around the model, the physical form remaining unpainted).

This work, which emanates a real presence, carries within it the quintessence of Yves Klein's art: immateriality, underpinned by the absence of the creative gesture, pure colour, and the intelligible imprint of the hand (and not the sensitive one) that this anthropometry, with its talismanic charm, embodies to perfection. It is a true marvel.

Privately owned, the work was acquired directly from the artist and we are delighted to present this to the public for the first time in our auction on 1 December in Paris.

Lot 6

Henri Michaux

Exhibited since 1959 at Daniel Cordier, the mescaline drawings were created in 1956 and 1962. They are the most sought-after works of the artist because they come from the intimate exploration of oneself, through the discovery of worlds (imaginary lands or secret observation of one's own mechanisms of perception) that is authorized by the absorption of mescaline, which the artist took from 1955 onwards. By their reduced formats, the seismographic vibration of the motive, these drawings reveal the optical nervousness, the hallucinogenic torments, of the painter but also a diluvian gush from which it emanates an enchanting glitter.

Michaux had kept this schoolboy habit of giving himself notes. When I removed the frame of this one, I was delighted to discover that the best reward was written on the back: a 10, underlined by three lines: a note that signified perfection for Michaux.

Lot 4

Chu Teh-Chun

This work emanates a true sense of poetry and grace. In an embalming sweetness, Chu Teh-Chun's works make us capsize from reality to dream, in a silent emotion.

His works have long been part of the permanent collections of the most important institutions and the most prestigious private collections. In my opinion, his price still promises to soar, as he belongs to those artists who have made the perfect synthesis between oriental poetry and western abstraction. François Cheng, the writer, says of him that he is "the only painter of his generation to have gone so far in his search to create a symbiosis of these two cultures". This work, majestic, carries its title wonderfully: velvety depths.

Lot 16

Agostino Bonalumi

This work, wonderfully dated, reveals the questioning of the object-painting that Bonalumi, Manzoni and Castellani asked themselves in the late 1950s. A true architect of the canvas, the artist offers us here a painting with an airy depth and a velvety white that is absolutely majestic. Acquired in 2006 from the Galleria Fumagalli in Bergamo, it belongs to one of the most beautiful private collections we know. Exhibited in 1967 at the Galleria Bonino, this work was already attracting attention. It is a sensual work, with a tactile beauty, that one irrepressibly wants to caress.