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Avant-Garde(s) Including Thinking Italian

Avant-Garde(s) Including Thinking Italian

Sale Overview

Pendant la troisième semaine d’octobre, Paris sera une nouvelle fois le cœur battant du marché international de l’art moderne, d’après-guerre et contemporain. À cette occasion, Christie’s présentera la troisième édition d’Avant-Garde(s) Including Thinking Italian, une vente exceptionnelle rendant hommage aux grandes figures ayant marqué l’art des 20e et 21e siècles. Avec une rare vue d’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti, une transparence de Francis Picabia conservée depuis un demi-siècle dans la même importante collection privée, une toile historique de Joan Mitchell provenant de la collection Jacques Dubourg, ou encore un spectaculaire tableau de 1965 de Zao Wou-Ki, aux côtés d’œuvres de François-Xavier Lalanne, Nicolas de Staël ou Georges Seurat, les provenances rares et prestigieuses seront mises à l’honneur.

La section Thinking Italian propose les meilleures expressions expérimentales et avant-gardistes du panorama artistique italien du 20e siècle : de la peinture métaphysique de de Chirico au spatialisme de Fontana, de la peinture-objet autoréférentielle de Schifano aux toiles extraflexes de Castellani en passant par la pureté de l’Achrome de Manzoni et les détails peints agrandis de Gnoli ainsi que les inventions de Boetti. Cette année, l’accent est mis sur le mouvement Arte Povera avec Penone, Paolini et les autres représentants du groupe.

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On the third week of October, Paris will once again be at the heart of the international market for modern, post-war and contemporary art. To mark the occasion, Christie’s will present the third edition of Avant-Garde(s) Including Thinking Italian, an exceptional sale paying tribute to the great figures who shaped the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The auction features rare and prestigious provenances, with a rare studio view by Alberto Giacometti, a ‘transparency’ painting by Francis Picabia that has been in the same important private collection for half a century, a historic canvas by Joan Mitchell from the Jacques Dubourg collection, and a spectacular 1965 painting by Zao Wou-Ki, alongside works by François-Xavier Lalanne, Nicolasde Staël and Georges Seurat.

The Thinking Italian section offers the best experimental and avant-garde expressions of the Italian artistic panorama of the 20th century: from the metaphysical painting of de Chirico to the Spatialism of Fontana, from the self-referential painting-object of Schifano, to the extroflexed canvases of Castellani, the purity of Manzoni’s Achrome and Gnoli’s enlarged painted details, as well as the inventions of Boetti. This year will include a special focus on the Arte Poveramovement with works by Penone, Paolini and the other representatives of the group.

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Auction times
18 Oct 06:00 PM (CEST) Lots 101-155

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Antoine Lebouteiller

Antoine Lebouteiller

Head of Department | Impressionist & Modern Art

Antoine Lebouteiller is the Head of the Impressionist and Modern Art department at Christie’s France. Antoine first joined Christie’s in 2009 in Paris, and has worked since 2013 at the London office as a Specialist for the Day and Works on Paper sales and later as Director and Senior Specialist for the Evening Sale. In December 2018, he rejoined the Paris team, leading the Avant-Garde and Works on Paper Sales.

Antoine worked closely with Deputy Chairman Olivier Camu on the Art of the Surreal evening auctions and was instrumental in the record-breaking sale of the Claudel bronze group in June 2018. Furthermore, he played a seminal role for many acquisitions by major international institutions, including an important Paul Gauguin ceramic acquired by the Musée d’Orsay during the October 2018 Unbreakable sale, of which he was the Impressionist lead.
Paul Nyzam

Paul Nyzam

Head of Department | Post-War & Contemporary Art

Paul Nyzam is the Head of Evening Sale and Specialist for Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s Paris, and since 2016, he has become the Co-Head for the Paris Avant-Garde sale, held annually during FIAC week. Paul is responsible for the sale of many distinguished private collections in Paris, including amongst others that of the Jean-François and Marie-Aline Prat collection in 2017, which until now still holds the auction record for a private post-war and contemporary art collection ever sold in France (€39m). The auction also saw Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Jim Crow achieve a record price in France for the year (€15m). Paul secured the consignment of Pierre Soulages’ Peinture 186 x 143 cm, 23 décembre 1959 (US$10.6m), setting a world record for the artist and for a French living artist, and he was instrumental in selling Nicolas de Staël’s Grand nu debout (US12.1m) – a record price for the artist. Both successes achieved in 2018. Paul holds a Master’s degree from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and HEC Paris.
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Paul Nyzam est spécialiste senior et il co-dirige depuis 2016 la vente Paris Avant-Garde organisée pendant la semaine de la FIAC.

Commençant sa carrière chez Christie’s en 2010, Paul a été déterminant dans la dispersion de plusieurs collections importantes à Paris. En 2017, il a dirigé la vente de la collection Jean-François et Marie-Aline Prat, restant à ce jour la plus importante collection d’art d’après-guerre et contemporain vendue en France (EUR 39.5M) dont l’œuvre-phare, Jim Crow de Jean-Michel Basquiat, a été l’œuvre d’art contemporain la plus chère vendue en France cette année-là (EUR 15M).

Paul a sécurisé la vente de Peinture 186 x 143 cm, 23 décembre 1959 de Pierre Soulages, établissant un record du monde pour l’artiste (US$10.6M) et pour un artiste français vivant. Il a également eu un rôle décisif dans la vente du Grand nu debout de Nicolas de Staël (US$12.1M) en 2018 et de Barbara (ANT 113) d’Yves Klein (US$ 15.6M) en 2019.

Paul Nyzam est diplômé de l’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) et de HEC Paris.
Renato Pennisi

Renato Pennisi

International Specialist, Director | Post-War & Contemporary Art

Renato Pennisi is a Director and Senior Specialist of Christie’s global 20/21 Century Team for Modern and Contemporary Art, based in Italy. He joined Christie’s in 2001 and signed responsible as Co-Head for Christie’s Milan auctions as of 2007.

In 2013, Renato launched a new sale format Milan Modern and Contemporary, a monographic sale focusing on the most desirable Italian artists, acclaimed alike by existing and new clients with sell through rates achieving over 90% by lot, even up to 100% result in 2015 and 2018.

In his capacity as international Specialist, Renato has achieved some exceptional auction results for Italian artists in- as well as outside of Italy. Amongst them Lucio Fontana’s Concetto spaziale, Attese sold in March 2018 for £8,671,250; and in October 2018 Concetto Spaziale, La Fine di Dio, dating from 1963 for £16,282,823, still the third highest price for the artist, Piero Manzoni’s Achrome from 1958 which sold in April 2018 for €2,970,000, still the highest price achieved for the artist in Italy), Emilio Vedova’s Cicio61/62 no. 2 sold in November 2008 for €731,600, an unbeaten artist auction record price lasting nearly for two decades, as well as Giorgio Morandi’s Natura Morta, 1939 sold in October 2015 for £2,546,500, still the second highest price at auction for the artist, and Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, sold in May 2017 $51,767,500. In 2021 Renato was instrumental for the consignment of the Collection Gerard Valkier : A lifetime journey with Art, which held many works by Italian 20/21century artists and totaled €6,572,250. A few months later in the same year, Renato signed responsible for the single owner sale Thousand Roads: A Private Collection in Rome which sold in Amsterdam and London and during the first edition of Thinking Italian in Paris in 2022, his Alighiero Boetti pink Mappa, 1979-1980 consignment set the then new world auction record for the artist, when selling for €5.6 million, doubling its mid-estimate.

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