Jules Leleu (1883-1961)

Gerardus Widdershoven, who created Maison Gérard, the gallery he founded in New York in 1974, died on June 14 from cancer at the age of 69. A specialist in Jules Leleu, Widdershoven was a pioneer in the revival of the Art Deco style in the Big Apple in the 1970s.

Two great 1930s renovators were commissioned to furnish a sanatorium in Savoy. The furniture they designed for a room combines joyous functionalism with the use of metal and colour.

Unveiled at the end of 2019, the project to restore the "Cap 44" building, which will house an expanded version of the Jules Verne Museum within the Cité des imaginaires, is taking shape. But the latter will not open until 2028 due to the magnitude of the necessary work needed to convert this former flour mill.

Boisgirard-Antonini announced the second part of the sale of Pierre Jacob's Jules Verne collection, to be held in room 9, on October 26. Of note is a Tour du Monde en 80 Jours (Tour of the World in 80 Days), a volume in blue percaline known to be a single example (€18,000/25,000).

Works as varied as a Flemish painting, a Vietnamese folding screen and a drawing by Prud'hon fetched good prices at this sale in Corbas, near Lyon.

A young woman friendly with artists was given a delightful hat by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, while Matisse limned an ode to a beautiful odalisque.

Some €50,000/80,000 will be needed for The Yellow Sound, a series of 91 gouache and graphite drawings by the Danish painter Richard Mortensen (1910-1993).

Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita was far more than a painter: a man of taste, the Parisian dandy was a creator of all things, who also explored furniture design.

This sale focuses on modernity—notably with Marc Chagall—the golden age of decorators with Ruhlmann and post-war art with Charlotte Perriand, among others.

It will take three sessions to sell 1,380 figurative and abstract works, ranging from Jules Chéret to James Pichette.