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26 March<br />
Belfond Collection: second sale<br />
Nearly a year after the sale of writers' drawings from the Franca and Pierre Belfond collection, <strong>Art</strong>curial recreated its<br />
success story. In February 2012, this sale totalled €1.5 M, garnering six world records on the way, with eighteen<br />
works bought by museums. The collection certainly provided a choice selection, ranging from a landscape with<br />
nude female figures by Paul Eluard (€10,800) to an ink drawing by <strong>Art</strong>hur Rimbaud (€285,600). On 26 March, the<br />
Paris auction house will be presenting the works of artists who in some way contributed to the celebrated "Cahiers<br />
du Regard" published by Belfond in the late Seventies. This new sale will contain 90 lots: paintings and works on<br />
paper collected by the Belfonds for the publication of the famous "Cahiers", when the publisher left Rue Guisarde<br />
for 10 Rue du Regard. Max Ernst was asked to illustrate the first volume, "Le Rire des poètes" by Henri Parisot.<br />
The collection features 66 cuivres rayés estimated at €35,000/40,000. Then come Dali, Matta and Bellmer (several<br />
works, including a delightful watercolour, "La Toupie", from 1952 at €40,000/60,000) in a series of volumes confronting<br />
the writer with the artist. In 1975, Belfond published Francis Picabia's romanticised autobiography, "Caravansérail".<br />
The Belfonds collected no fewer<br />
than seven of his works, including "Je<br />
vous attends", a painting from his last<br />
period where Picabia returned to<br />
Abstraction (see photo). Part of the<br />
former Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia collection,<br />
this was exhibited and published<br />
several times, notably during the 1976<br />
retrospective at the Grand Palais. Also<br />
worth noting: his "Mécanique" from<br />
1916, the year of Dada's birth<br />
(€50,000/100,000). Other jewels in the<br />
collection include a watercolour by<br />
Kandinsky, "White on Black"<br />
(€100,000/150,000), and a painting<br />
by Jean Dubuffet, "Topographie au<br />
sol" (€70,000-100,000).<br />
Stéphanie Perris-Delmas<br />
Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953), "Je vous attends",<br />
1948, oil on hardboard; signed on the bottom left,<br />
99.30 x 80.30 cm. Estimate: €250,000/350,000.<br />
HD<br />
UPCOMING AUCTIONS THE MAGAZINE