ADVICE, INVENTORIES AND GENERAL APPRAISALS

[Above] Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) Femme au collier, 1937, oil on canvas. © UFE, Paris 2022 (detail) [Below] Louis Touchagues (1893 - 1974) Café du Dôme, Montparnasse 1937, lithograph, trial proof © UFE, Paris 2022 (detail)

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The art market, whether ancient, modern, or contemporary, extending to furniture and sophisticated valuables, constitutes a mature market of clear assets. The difficulty for the simple amateur, and even more so for a neophyte, is that it is composed of a very large number of artists and creators whose market values, techniques, and trajectories require not only years of research to evaluate and authenticate but also abundant documentation and extensive experience that only our experts can provide to satisfy them. Galleries are ever-increasing in number, fairs are multiplying and attracting large audiences, and current events are becoming so dense that the volumes and values of works for sale and purchase are experiencing exponential growth; it is therefore more necessary than ever to be well-advised when buying or selling in order to benefit from expert guidance. The art market holds undeniable interest. It offers clear wealth management perspectives, but as it develops, it demands increasingly specialized expertise and vigilance. Our generalist experts act as buyer-advisors on behalf of clients, galleries, and institutions wishing to appraise the work of an artist or any other specific art object (originals and multiples), and also as seller-advisors defining the strategy adapted to the client's objectives and the content of their collection via the appropriate resale networks: private sales, galleries, or auctions. Thanks to a permanent and highly specialized analysis of the French and international markets, a perfect mastery of its interpretation keys, and an in-depth knowledge of the value of the players in this ecosystem, it is possible to evaluate opportunities. This analysis follows scientific analyses, the rigorous description of the objects presented, and the confirmation of their condition and the artists' market value. The generalist expert places the authentic object within its era, a category, and potentially a context that requires in-depth knowledge; they recognize its value and advise on its sale, purchase, or entry into a collection. They document and carry out inheritance inventories and collection inventories more generally. They help to break down the barriers between highly specialized fields of expertise and can advise a contemporary artist, a gallery, or an institution in the preparation of a CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ.

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Albert BENAMOU

ORIENTALIST AND SYMBOLIST PAINTING FROM 1820 TO 1914 - SCULPTURE FROM THE 19TH TO EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

DUVAL Hervé

PICTORIAL CENTERS IN BRITTANY (1870-1940) / MINOR MASTERS OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FRENCH PAINTING (1890-1990)

POULIN Jean-Marc

DOLLS AND AUTOMATA - 18TH CENTURY FRENCH FURNITURE

IMBARD Patrick

ABSTRACT AND CONTEMPORARY ART

TAILFER Géraldine

FRENCH PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS (FROM 1850 TO 1950) AND PIERRE PUVIS DE CHAVANNES COMMITTEE

TROUVÉ Lynda

GENERAL INVENTORIES AND APPRAISALS / INDOCHINESE ARTS (1924-1950) - STUDENTS OF THE ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE L'INDOCHINE

Agathe CABAU

RESEARCH AND ATTRIBUTION OF WORKS FROM OFFICIAL 19TH-CENTURY SALONS AND THE PAINTER JULIE HUGO, NÉE DUVIDAL DE MONTFERRIER

Emmanuelle VIDAL-DELAGNEAU

ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT - COLLECTION INVENTORIES

Valerie ROGER

THE SCULPTOR JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1741-1828) - MODERN AND POST-WAR ART / Methodology of the CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ