Thomas MORIN-WILLIAMS
LIFE AND WORK OF THE AMERICAN PAINTER NORRIS EMBRY (1921-1981)
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NORRIS EMBRY (United States 1921-1981), Untitled (James Ensor), 1972, signed and dated "NO72" (lower left), watercolour and wax crayon on paper, 46 x 60.5 cm. ©: Norris Embry Archives
Expert Thomas Morin-Williams
An independent expert since 2019, Thomas Morin-Williams is the founder of Cabinet Morin-Williams, which provides its expertise to auction houses and private clients to authenticate, appraise, provide financial valuation, and sell 19th- and 20th-century paintings and drawings at auction.
Holder of a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Warwick, Thomas Morin-Williams has 15 years’ experience in the Modern Art market.
From 2011 to 2015, he worked at Christie’s Paris as a cataloguer in the Impressionist and Modern Art department, notably responsible for the sale of the Pierre Pastré collection and works by Christian Bérard (October 2014). He was also the reference expert for Picasso ceramics.
In 2015, he joined Leclere - Maison de ventes, where he created the Impressionist and Modern Art department, which he led until 2019. During this period, he was responsible for several record sales of works by Bernard Buffet, Rembrandt Bugatti, Auguste Rodin, and Edgar Degas. He also served as expert for the dispersal of the Paule Cailac collections (March–April 2016) and the Michel Seuphor collections (October 2017 and April 2019). Thomas Morin-Williams has been a member of the Compagnie d’Experts Français en Antiquités since 2020,
He became a member of the Union Française des Experts en Objets d'Art in 2024.
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The artist Norris Embry (Louisville, Kentucky 14 Jan. 1921–17 Feb. 1981) - an American artist associated with Art Brut and Neo-Expressionism.
Norris Embry grew up in the town of East Orange, New Jersey, near New York, then in Evanston in the Chicago area, where he attended public schools through the end of high school. He later enrolled at Saint John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, then at the Art Institute of Chicago. At the end of the 1940s, he joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where his professor, the Expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka, had a major influence on him. Among the European countries where Embry lived from time to time were France, Italy, Germany, and Spain, followed by England and Sweden. Paris was his first European destination on his initial trip in 1947; he returned there often over the following 15 years. However, it was above all Mediterranean culture that won his heart and captured his artistic imagination, particularly Greece, where he stayed frequently. His output is estimated at between 8,000 and 10,000 works. Thomas Morin-Williams is currently preparing, in collaboration with the Norris Embry Estate, the Catalogue Raisonné of this artist’s work.Bibliography
NORRIS EMBRY Catalogue Raisonné (in preparation)
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