The Paris fall sales open with Moderne(s), une collection particulière européenne. Bringing together around forty works from a single collection, this prestigious sale highlights the European avant-gardes of the first half of the 20th century, featuring masterpieces by René Magritte, Max Ernst, and Egon Schiele. Among the standout works, Paul Signac’s La Passerelle Debilly, a magnificent pointillist landscape painted in 1903, makes a remarkable return to the market after more than 65 years.

On the same day, the fourth edition of Avant-Garde(s) Including Thinking Italian will pay tribute to leading figures of 20th- and 21st-century art, including Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Nicolas de Staël and Pierre Soulages. The highlight of this sale, and of the season, will be Yves Klein’s largest monochrome, California (IKB 71), painted in 1961, and appearing at auction for the first time. This monumental work, measuring over four meters in length, epitomizes the artist’s radical creativity and holds a preeminent place among Klein’s works to have appeared on the market. The second top lot of the sale is a recently rediscovered lifetime cast of a Femme debout by Alberto Giacometti. At the heart of the auction, the Thinking Italian section will showcase outstanding works from the Italian artistic landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries, ranging from Alighiero Boetti’s conceptual embroideries to Mario Schifano’s Pop influences, and culminating in a rare and iconic work by Jannis Kounellis.

The following day, the Art Moderne and Art Contemporain sales will conclude the week, bringing together a carefully curated selection of works by major artists from these periods. Highlights of the modern section include an exceptional selection of animal bronzes by Rembrandt Bugatti, as well as paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, and Marc Chagall, while the contemporary sale will feature leading post-war figures such as Jean Dubuffet and Hans Hartung, alongside key names of the contemporary art scene, including a portrait by Miriam Cahn.