Serge Mouille (1922-1988)

In their own way, various creators invented a highly personal vocabulary, reflecting their founding myths with the Indigenous Americans, and the avant-garde with designers.

This abstract composition appears on the market for the first time. It is dated 1956, a milestone year for the painter, who exhibited both in Paris and abroad.

The painter and interior designer played with materials to his heart's content, choosing red to dress up a fur salon.

Shapes and colors resonate in this 1956 gouache. With a freedom that does not rule out precision, the artist makes space vibrate.

Antibes will host another design sale, this one featuring Charlotte Perriand’s Nuage bookcase, rattan furniture by Audoux-Minet and a chair by Niemeyer.

This “Sun King” mirror confirms the popularity of a designer who gave her works poetic names.

Estimated at €30 000/50 000, Enfants au square was offered by the singer to Juliette Greco whose estate will be dispersed on November 19 by Crait + Müller. This painting is 1 of 5 surviving paintings by Gainsbourg. Also included in the catalog is La petite Gréco au chat, painted by Foujita in 1953 (€60,000/80,000).

Christian Dior’s former make-up director, who now lives in Marrakech, thousands of miles from his perfumery and salon at the Palais-Royal, is also, and above all, an aesthete.

Descending from a long line of experts and dealers in Old Master drawings, Emmanuel de Bayser tracks down famous names in French post-war design.

In twelve works, the collection that a couple began in 1980 proves that abstract and figurative art are not mutually exclusive.