Works on paper from the XXth century
Prints - Litographs - Etchings - Screenprints - Drawings
Michelle Champetier
Since January 2003 Michelle Champetier has been running, her gallery in Cannes. Benefiting from 35 years of experience, 10 years of which were spent in her self-run gallery in Nice, she commits herself to original prints (etchings, lithographs) but also drawings and multiples (sculptures, ceramics) by artists of the 20th Century as Picasso, Braque, Chagall, Miro, Giacometti, Dali, Chillida, Buffet, Marini, Delaunay, Clavé, Soulages or Tapiès (816 artists are at present represented in gallery).
She is also involved in brokerage. Which is largely facilitated by professional contacts she has made over the years. A vast library of catalogues, detailed books regarding the works of various artists, and auction catalogues that have been collected over numerous years, to aid her in the various processes involved in acting as a broker. By brokerage, she has thus participated in the purchase or sale of major paintings and sculptures by French and overseas collectors.
Her reputation, capability, and her ability to negotiate prices have enabled her to construct a large and loyal client base. She considers her client as a partner and as such, if she cannot assist them she will point them in the direction of someone else who can.
She has in the past organised several expositions that follow her major areas of interest.
VALUATION & BROKERAGE
Make estimate the value of your worksYou wish to estimate one or more works in your possession as part of an inheritance, a future share, a legacy, a loss, an evaluation for your insurance company, I propose to study a previous quote to make such an estimate.
PURCHASE
Propose your works for saleYou can offer me works in purchase; I look for prints (lithographs, etchings, screenprints) but also ceramics, illustrated books and original works - in particular drawings by masters of the XXth century.
SOME ADVICES
Handled, framed, ship printsAlthough the artist is essential, although there is its rarity or the fact that it is signed or not, the value of a print also lies in its state. Know how to manipulate it with delicacy (never pinch paper!), know how to frame a print and finally know how to make it travel are factors of first importance.
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"I want my work to be the piece of music written by a painter for his poem."
Joan Miro
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"What interests me is to capture the appearence of death working on the body."
Francis Bacon
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"For me, everything is painting, even the sculpture because the invisible space shows itself as visible space."
Nato FrascÃ
1931-2006 -
"Space and shape so naturally fuse to make one."
Henry Moore
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"My nerve may be roated into the tragic, but theit extremities have a constant laugh."
Dorothéa Tanning
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"A suspension is a piece of poetry dancing in a ray of life and surprising."
Alexander Calder
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"I am particularly interested by the psychic effect of the color."
Josef Albers
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"Painting does not mean anything, it just wants to be."
Edouard Pignon
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"There is a very fine line between Art and Science."
Stanley-William Hayter
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"Once I painted in a brillant red, the vine leaves covering the sex of the statues in the school hall."
Niki de Saint Phalle
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"The man who takes the footpaths encourages the frenzy of a gourmand life."
Edgard Pillet
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"My heart paints the profile of the hills."
Mario Prassinos
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"Our projects use dimensions which usually do not belong to a sculpture."
Javacheff Christo
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"I am an american, not internationalist who would speak an artists esperanto."
Robert Indiana
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"A painting cannot be massproduced contrary to some belief."
James Rosenquist
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"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it."
Robert Motherwell
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"Holding a copper plate or a stone for lithographs I felt in possession of a Talisman."
Marc Chagall
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"To be sensitive is to be conscious, contrary to a commun description of sensitivity."
Jeanneret Le Corbusier
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"Love is nettle, we must gather her at every instant if we want to lie next to her."
Pablo Picasso
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"My style is as artificial as possible."
Roy Lichtenstein
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"I constructed a reality for myself."
Louise Nevelson
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"Art is a force where the goal is to develop and enhance the human soul."
Wassily Kandinsky
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"Color does not exist except in applied painting, but as the heart of an idea."
Ben Nicholson
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"For a painter, there is no bad subject. "
Robert Rauschenberg
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"What exists between the apple and its plate must also be painted."
Georges Braque
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"Each canvas is a page of the painter's diairy."
Zao Wou Ki
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"In Provence, I suddenly felt a great excitement for the painting of Cezanne and Van Gogh."
Graham Sutherland
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"My eyes wide open, I absorb all things like the sponge sucks the liquid."
Henri Matisse
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"I always had the most profound attachment for all which could not be explained."
Ed Ruscha
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"Painting and the sculpture are unambiguous, their utility lies in their intellectual and spiritual utility."
Max Bill
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"Above, in the midst of the night, glides the day, invisible bird."
Max Ernst
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"The past suddenly appears, all art, and time becomes space."
Alberto Giacometti
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"The art of tomorrow will be a commun treasure within which art no longer exists."
Victor Vasarely
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"I live in a paradise of diabolical blue balls where I pursue this unique mathematic of my imagination."
Sam Francis
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"The artist must remain open-minded to all new forms of knowledge and perception."
David Hockney
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"The construction of a work is melody, comparable with that of a symphony."
Alfred Manessier
1911-1993