Veere unsold

Sold for €59,000 in 1989 and €82,000 in 1998, this view of Veere was offered by Bonhams on 21 November 2023 in London on behalf of a very greedy and optimistic Dutch collector. With an audacious estimate of £300,000 / 500,000, it naturally went unsold.

Painting from 1892, not unsold …

Alain Delon was the proud owner of this fine neo-impressionist canvas from 1892. But this did not persuade buyers to pay the $5 to $7 million expected by Christie’s at its New York sales. This is a new technique used by auction houses to avoid unsold works and bad statistics. Works with little chance of […]

Portrait of Verhaeren

A masterpiece of Neo-Impressionist drawing, this 1892 portrait of Verhaeren has aroused the passions of true connoisseurs. Sold for 150,000 euros in 2006, it was offered at the same auction house, Christie’s Paris, on 21 October 2023 with an astonishing estimate of 60-80,000 euros. After a fierce bidding war, it sold for €240,000. This works […]

A discovery

Sold for 32,000 euros, four times its low estimate, this superb painting from the early 1880s was rediscovered by Millon Belgique in a Brussels estate. Unsurprisingly unknown in Feltkamp’s self-proclaimed catalogue raisonné, the painting was accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Olivier Bertrand, whose authority reassured the market and collectors, as evidenced by the […]

London National Gallery

This extraordinary painting, belonging to the National Gallery in London and bearing the monogram of Théo Van Rysselberghe, was compared in 2006 with the Divisionist works lent to us for our retrospective exhibition. We wanted to take advantage of this temporary laboratory to gain a better understanding of the artist’s technique when he devoted himself […]