A contemporary art collection usually starts with the acquisition of one or two pieces that entertain or echo personal preferences. Owning newly curated artworks reflects a sensitivity to current artistic creation, as part of a larger societal adventure. Buying contemporary art is therefore an investment, although the use value of art through pleasure and intellectual…
Contemporary paintings, sculptures, ceramics are at home on the French Riviera, in its particular natural scenery of light, water, and greenery, enhanced by architecture and cosmopolitan lifestyle. Influential historical visual artists loved these surroundings, not only ideal for keeping and showing larger or smaller private art collections, but for producing art. A cultural flow that…
He is somewhat the epitome of nonconformity. A figurative painter when figurativeness was getting out of fashion, posing nude, as a 40-year-old in reasonably good shape, on a literary review front cover to stress his point; still a smoker despite suffering a stroke; openly gay at a time when bigoted legislation forbade it; carrying messages…