The four-storey mansion located at 43, boulevard Albert-Iis , in Nancy, has found a new destination. It is in this opulent place that the firm of auctioneer Alexandre Landre, already established in Semur-en-Auxois (Côte-d’Or) and Beaune (Côte-d’Or), has chosen to install its new auction house.
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“The idea, by setting up in this bourgeois house, is to offer a setting equal to the works of art designed for large residences that we want to present for sale”, explains M e Antoine Audhuy, auctioneer associated with M e Alexandre Landre and Guillaume Nardo, clerk. “Beyond the auctions of furniture, works of art, musical instruments and other specific sales that will be organized there each month, the objective is also to make this place a cultural space where it will be possible to exchange with art experts ”.
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Free expertise this Saturday
The new auction house, offering free and confidential estimates every Tuesday, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. by appointment, will be inaugurated this weekend, with a free and confidential day of expertise, open to all, scheduled for this Saturday. October 9, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., devoted to Art Deco and Art Nouveau objects. Expertise will be provided by Alexandre Landre, Antoine Audhuy and Amélie Marcilhac, expert in 20th century decorative arts.
The next day, Sunday October 10, the mansion of 600 m² will host, from 2 p.m., an auction of Art Deco and Art Nouveau glass objects from a private collection.
The sale, broadcast live on the online sites Drouot Digital, Interencheres, and Invaluable, will bring together 96 lots awarded to René Lalique (1860-1945), François-Théodore Legras (1839-1916), Emile Gallé (1864-1904), at the Daum crystal factory, and other great master glassmakers from this creative period.
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A pair of Gallé vases estimated between 20,000 and 30,000 euros
Among the pearls of the collection, there is a pair of twisted tubular vases on an overflowing polylobed heel and hot-molded collar signed Gallé, in so-called moonlight glass decorated with polychrome enamels enhanced with gilding of dragonflies on a background of vegetation and ribbon, estimated between 20,000 and 30,000 euros.
There is also a charcoal drawing entitled “Elephant in the Light”, by the painter sculptor Paul Jouve (1878-1973) estimated between 8,000 and 12,000 euros, and a lithograph by the same artist, “Panthère”, estimated between 8,000 and € 10,000.
Registration for the sale this Sunday, October 9 by email: [email protected]. Information on +33 9 83 43 24 78.
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