Auction catalogue for 12 December in Rennes : Works of Art from Africa, Oceania, North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Antiquities, and Photography from various early collections including the Estates of General Maignan and Joseph Ambroise Soulingeas. LINK TO THE CATALOGUE

Catalogue de la vente du 12 décembre à Rennes : Œuvres d’art d’Afrique, d’Océanie, d’Amérique du Nord, d’Amérique du Sud, d’Asie, d’Europe, des Antiquités et des photographies de diverses collections anciennes dont les successions du général Maignan et de Joseph Ambroise Soulingeas. LIEN vers le CATALOGUE

Patrick Varnier, maitre encadreur et marchand "d'Art Moderne de Tous les Temps", nous a quittés à sa manière, discrètement, comme il nous montrait ses choix d'artistes dans sa galerie et atelier d'encadrement au 4 rue des Beaux-Arts. Entre recevoir visiteurs et clients, il était toujours occupé à sculpter ses personnages grotesques et dérangeants, la cigarette à la main en même temps que son outillage. 

Modeste et retenu, Patrick Varnier s'emportait facilement devant la beauté d'une feuille ou d'une toile, communiquant avec une force merveilleuse ses appréciations et commentaires longuement développés. Lui qui a reçu dans ses mains pour l'encadrement tant de chefs-d'oeuvres des anciens sur papier, toile, bois et parchemin et autant des plus divers et variés artistes contemporains, a acquis un "oeil", une connaissance, une intimité dont peu peuvent se prévaloir. Son regard aiguisé par une recherche toujours plus essentiel a été attiré par l'antique et l'archaïque, ainsi que par les objets blessés -comme l'homme et la femme- par le temps qui passe.
Jeune sculpteur, Varnier a vécu de nombreuses années chez l'artiste français Ipoustéguy (1920-2006) qui représentait pour lui une figure presque paternelle.

Ami de Francis Bacon qu'il rencontre lors des installations de l'exposition de l'artiste à la galerie Claude Bernard, il se fascine pour le regard torturé que nous propose l'artiste anglais et voilà qu'il s'en inspire pour ses têtes grotesques, les évêques, chers à Bacon, ainsi que les autres "gueules cassées" de la vie qui hante son esprit dans son Bestiaire de l'Humanité.

Patrick Varnier, un érudit, un épicurien, un gourmand, un jouisseur, un faiseur nous laisse ici voir et emporter, peut-être, un peu de son regard et de son univers... catalogue de la Vente

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Patrick Varnier, master framer and dealer of "Modern Art of All Time", has passed away discreetly, in the same manner as he exhibited his choice of artists in his gallery and framing workshop at 4 rue des Beaux-Arts. In-between receiving visitors and customers, he was busy sculpting his disturbing and grotesque figures, the ubiquitous cigarette in hand at the same time as his tools.

Though modest and restrained, Patrick Varnier was easily carried away by the beauty of a drawing or a canvas, communicating with wonderful enthusiasm his long-developed appreciations and comments. He who framed so many masterpieces of the ancients on paper, canvas, wood and parchment and as many of the most diverse and varied contemporary artists, had acquired an "eye", a knowledge, an intimacy that few can claim. His keen eye was attracted by the ancient and the archaic as well as by “wounded objects” – those damaged - like humanity by the passage of time. As a young sculptor, Varnier lived for many years with the French artist Ipoustéguy (1920-2006) who was to become a paternal figurehead. As a friend of Francis Bacon whom he met during the installation of the artist's first exhibition at the Galerie Claude Bernard, Varnier became fascinated by the tortured gaze offered by the English artist and he was inspired to develop his own grotesque heads, the bishops, dear to Bacon, as well as the other “gueules cassées” (broken faces) of life that haunted his Bestiary of Humanity.

Patrick Varnier, a scholar, an epicurean, a gourmet, a lover of life, and a creator offers us here a little of his “eye” and his universe... Auction Catalogue

https://danielblau.com/photosaintgermain-2022

PhotoSaintGermain 2022

Tondo
DANIEL BLAU is pleased to present “TONDO,” a truly unique exhibition of vintage pictures connected by their unusually well-rounded focus, for the PhotoSaintGermain Festival 2022.
 
The 23 photographs featured in the Anthony Meyer rooms, stretching in origin all the way back to the earliest days of the artform in the early nineteenth century, range from cityscape to portraiture, from images of far-off lunar craters to the architectural gems around us. What unifies them all is, of course, roundness, whether in their subject matter, in the technology behind them, or in the framing of the very photograph itself.
 
Tondi have an age-old place in art history, and with the advent of photography took a step into the modern world as well. Experimentation in roundness has been present from the first lens down through the innovation of the fisheye in the 1960s and ‘70s, reflecting the zeitgeist and aesthetic impulses of every generation from Voigtländer to Nikon. Here, DANIEL BLAU, together with SERGE PLANTUREUX, has brought together an extraordinary curation of roundness through the decades, outstanding work that encompasses historic milestones and natural timelessness, anonymous faces and monumental profiles. Lightning watchers at the Empire State are frozen in time by John Alger, beside Alvin Landon Coburn’s view of colleague Alfred Stieglitz.
 
“What is the aesthetic beauty of a circle? – or of a turning, curving movement,” DANIEL BLAU asks, in a recently published discussion between the two experts behind the exhibit. “Isn’t it something that is quite natural to us? Beginning with the iris being round, and the eye being round like a sphere, and the head being roundish, the sun and the moon being round… we are surrounded by all these spherical, and seemingly circular objects.” The reflection on and consideration of roundness is itself an endless one, always circling back upon itself, wherever we begin – the possibility, the potential, the resources, the subjects, the history, the technology, the very shape itself. Unusual as it can seem at first, the circle in photography is there at every turn.
The exhibition “TONDO” will be held in the Anthony Meyer Rooms at PhotoSaintGermain between November 3rd and 19th, 2022.
 
 
 
 
Exhibition Dates:
November 3rd – 19th, 2022
 
opening hours:
tuesday to friday
2:30 pm – 6:00 pm
and
saturdays
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
 
exhibition at Galerie Meyer:
17, rue des Beaux-Arts
75006 Paris – France

Exhibition Casse-Tête II : the art of Pacific war clubs
Until 29/10

Once again, we are off to Burgundy to exhibit at the BOURGOGNE TRIBAL SHOW in Besanceuil at the magnificent gallery of our friend and colleague Bruno Mory. I will be offering a selection of fine Oceanic & Eskimo art and select group of early stone objects !
We will be over 25 exhibitors showing art from all the non-western cultures and a strong new group of exhibitors showing Antiquities from the early Mediterranean cultures. 

Une fois de plus, nous partons en Bourgogne pour exposer au BOURGOGNE TRIBAL SHOW à Besanceuil dans la magnifique galerie de notre ami et collègue Bruno Mory. Je proposerai une sélection d’art Océanien et Eskimo et une sélection d’objets en pierre ancienne !
Nous serons plus de 25 exposants présentant des œuvres d’art de toutes les cultures non occidentales avec un nouveau groupe d’exposants présentant des antiquités des premières cultures méditerranéennes.

SUPPLEMENT AUX VOYAGES DE ROGER BOULAY DANS LES COLLECTIONS D'OBJETS DE LA CULTURE KANAK DE LA NOUVELLE CALEDONIE : Les collections privées...  7 avril - 21 mai 2022

SUPPLEMENT TO THE VOYAGES OF ROGER BOULAY THROUGH THE COLLECTIONS OF OBJETS OF THE KANAK CULTURE OF NEW CALEDONIA : The Private collections...  7 April - 21 May 2022

PARIS TRIBAL
9 - 13 Mar. 2022
Nous allons vous présenter un petit ensemble d'objets provenant d'Océanie, d'Afrique et du Pérou en lien avec la vision occidentale de l'érotisme...

We will be exhibiting a small selection of art works from the South Pacific, Africa and Peru which correspond to the Western visions of eroticism...

A major auction : Nature & Wonders II : Objects of Art & Curiosities  - Thursday 24 February 2022 at 3pm
The Experts Laurent Dodier & Anthony JP Meyer present :
LOT 129 A Moai Tanga figure (53 cm)
LOTS 130 & 131 A complet Greenland Kayak and full hunters costume
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Une Grande Vente : Nature & Merveilles II : Objets d’art et de curiosité  - Jeudi 24 février 2022 à 15h
Les Experts Laurent Dodier & Anthony JP Meyer present :
LOT 129 Une figure Moai Tanga (53 cm)
LOTS 130 & 131 Un kayak complet du Groenland et un costume de chasseur complet
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