Sotheby’s invites you to an exceptional rendez-vous with Bernard Boutet de Monvel on 5 and 6 April 2016 in Paris, when the contents of his private mansion will be auctioned. Stéphane-Jacques Addade, expert in Bernard Boutet de Monvel’s work, introduces the painter, engraver, sculptor, decorator for the Compagnie des Arts Français and illustrator for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, whose pioneering talent and eye for balance, geometry and convergent lines made him both a master of Art Déco and a major figure of American Precisionism.