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Contemporary Art Online | Paris

Online Auction: 25 May–3 June 2020 • 3:00 PM CEST • Paris

3 Generations of Female Artists that Shaped Contemporary Art

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  Louise Nevelson, Wall Relief, Estimate €70,000–100,000

  Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) is considered, together with Alexandre Calder and David Smith, as one of the principal instigators of modern sculpture. Synthesizing elements of primitive art, cubism and the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp, her monochrome assemblages distance themselves from the traditional canons by creating the bases for a singular form of art, combining rigor and baroque, fantasy and materiality.
  

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  Louise Bourgeois, Femme, 2006, Estimate €3,000–5,000

  Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, surrealism, expressionism and minimalism, the works of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) are as personal as they are autobiographical. Her drawings, which she replicates not only in her engravings but also on her canvasses, have always been a way for her to exorcise her demons, catching “fleeting thoughts” that will be the benchmark of the evocative power of her works.

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  Geneviève Asse, Untitled, 1962, Estimate €3,000–5,000

  Geneviève Asse’s (1923-) name calls to mind the complexion of a thousand shades that has passed to posterity under the name “bleu Asse”, which this “grande dame” of painting has consistently replicated since the beginning of the 1950s. While invading the canvas without aiming for a monochrome result, the blue stretches out while maintaining staggered symmetries that are nevertheless melodious. As a result, we understand why Geneviève Asse was so beloved by some of the greatest writers of the 20th century including Samuel Beckett, Francis Ponge and Jorge Luis Borges.
  

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  Claude Lalanne, Pomme Bouche, 1980, Estimate €20,000-30,000
  

  Between myth and reality, the hybrid works born from the fertile imagination of Claude Lalanne (1925-2019) invite us to believe in the existence of an enchanting world that is within our reach. An emblematic sculpture of the artist, the Pomme Bouche perfectly illustrates the teaching of this unclassifiable artist who understood better than all others how to desacralize sculpture without bringing it down from its pedestal.

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  Kiki Smith, Untitled, 2006, Estimate €3,000–5,000
  

  A major and recurrent theme in her works, the human body and more particularly the female figure whose contours are outlined here in gold and silver leaf voice the concerns of Kiki Smith (1954-) since the beginning of her career. At the crossroads between the fantastic and popular culture, through this piece, the celebrated artist proposes an exploration of the social, cultural and political role of women that is as subjective as it is accurate.

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  Paola Pivi, Senza Titolo (Perle), 2003, Estimate €7,000–10,000
  

  Born in 1971, Paolo Pivi rapidly imposed herself on the international artistic scene. Through her sculptures, installations, photographs and performances in which dreams and reality, as well as the natural and the artificial, are at odds, the Italian artist opens a new realm of possibilities for an unprecedented, poetic and wild space.
  

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  Chiharu Shiota, State of Being, 2010 Estimate €10,000–15,000
  

  “The threads are interwoven. They are entangled. They tear at each other. They become undone. They are akin to a mirror of feelings.” - Chiharu Shiota
  
  Student of Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn – who both also focus their works on physical experimentation, temporality, the unconscious and dreams – and exhibited in one of the most prestigious international institutions, the singular work of Chiharu Shiota (1972-) requires both the mental and physical involvement of the spectator.

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  Farah Atassi, Experimental Room, 2009, Estimate €10,000–15,000
  

  One of the most promising painters of her generation, Farah Atassi (1981-) develops a figurative work via an ambitious synthesis of modern and minimalist elements. Attracted by the ruins of the modern world similarly to the Romantics of the 18th century, her paintings exhibit a tension between the planarity induced by their composition and the depiction of space.

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