"Bach, Cantate N°16 Soprano 11.62", by Serge Charchoune

"Ce qu'évoquent les Livres" Allegory of the Literature Oil on canvas Signed on the lower part beside parchment 111 x 133 x 2 cm Framed 125 x 146 x 7 cm Provenance: Collection Georges AUBRY, brother of the artist Bibliography: Illustrated in catalogue «Regards de peintre» , Suzanne AUBRY-CASANOVA, 1997, p.104 After trying years of forced confinement due to the war, he composed this allegorical fresco on the theme of Literature, Science and Arts was painted by Émile Aubry for his younger brother Georges Aubry, who had intended it for his library. This work, composed on the theme of the book it symbolizes, in its diversity by allegorical characters, he cannot help ordering the painting around Art, which he places at the top of the scale of human...

Pierre Legendre (1932-2009) Accord II oil on canvas circa 1980 Measures: 116 x 81 cm. Pierre Legendre, born in 1932 in Haute-Marne, moved to Paris at the age of 22. After classes at the Estienne school in Paris as well as those of the Beaux-Arts, he worked for several big houses and was the originator of logos for big brands like Hermès or Nina Ricci. He entered the academy of the painter Henri GOETZ, which allowed him to familiarize himself with abstract, geometric art. He exhibited from the 1970s, as in 1979 at UNESCO in Paris. A discreet painter, he nevertheless participated in the 80s and 90s in many artists' salons (Comparaison, Grand et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Réalités Nouvelles). Pierre Legendre is of deep integrity, of great moral rigor, his geometric and abstract art also reflects a quest for spirituality and philosophical reflection. Although denying itself to belong to Concrete Art, Legendre by its taste for purism and the immateriality of the straight line is not so far removed from, among others, the art of Jean Gorin...

Raphaël DELORME (1885-1962) « Jeune femme dans son intérieur » Oil on panel Signed Lower right Framed 36 x 32 cm Total 50 x 47 cm Raphaël Delorme was a French painter born in 1885 ...

A very fine bronze brown and gilt patina French 19th century timepiece in the oriental Chinese taste. In an Archaic style bell with molded relief dragons circling body, surmounted by...

A French Art Nouveau bronze Vide-Poche Centerpiece Depicting a Naiad resting by a shell on a rock Signed Auguste Moreau on the rock Three patinas Circa 1900 Auguste Moreau (1834-1...

A Famille Rose Painted Enamel inkwell set Qianlong Period (1736-1795) by l’Escalier de Cristal It consists of a fretworked tray with raised edges in blackened wood surrounded by a fine gilded bronze ring, on which rests two Famille Rose Qianlong Period (1736-1795) hexagonal inkwells with pierced tops, one with original glass container, decorated with polychrome stylised flower heads and foliate scrollwork. This inkwell is characteristic of the productions of the Maison de l'Escalier de Cristal, it shows a hybrid realization, using ancient Asian elements, used as a container for feathers and ink. Stamped «Escalier de Cristal Paris» Circa 1880 L’Escalier de Cristal, Parisian firm created about 1800 by Mme veuve Desarnaud, famous under the French « Restoration » for its decorative objects combining crystal and bronze. She was awarded a gold medal at the 1819 Paris Exposition des Produits de l’Industrie for an outstanding gilt-bronze mounted crystal dressing table. Located in Paris, at the Palais-Royal, Galerie de Valois, L’Escalier de Cristal was bought out around 1830 by Boin, and then by Lahoche in 1840. The company owed its rise to a position amongst the most im-portant Paris decorative wares shops to Lahoche, who expanded considerably the business and entered later in partnership with his son-in-law to set up in 1852 Lahoche et Pannier...

Gouache of Paris, 'L’ile St Louis' by Serge Mendjisky, signed and dated lower right and inscribed with title on reverse. The piece including frame measure...

62" abstract painting by listed Southampton artist Russell Christoffersen.

Parisian cityscape, signed and framed oil on canvas by Serge Belloni, ‘57 This painting has all the quintessential features of Belloni’s renowned Parisi...

Exceptional oil on canvas by the French painter Serge Arnoux (1933-2014). This absolutely modern work is characterized by the intense blue color of the background, against which a co...

Oil on canvas abstract "Composition" by Serge Rezvani. France: circa 1958 Born in Tehran, Rezvani is the son of a Persian father, Medjid-Khan Rezvani (1900–1962), and a Jewish mother who had immigrated from Russia Rezvani has written more than 40 novels, 15 plays and two collections of poetry. He is the author of more than 150 songs, including the famous Le Tourbillon sung by Jeanne Moreau in the film Jules and Jim, as well as J'ai la mémoire qui flanche [fr], also performed by Moreau (he signed these songs under pseudonym Cyrus Bassiak, which means "barefoot" in Russian).Rezvani also wrote two songs for Godart's Pierrot le fou...

Roy Dimitri Parsons surrealist style oil on canvas, framed, signed and dated lower right. DIMITRI '62 "Cityscapes" Parsons was born in London. He moved to New York state as a child....