Many of them are betting on an explosion in the rating of Soulages when the artist, 102, will no longer be in this world!
Disastrous pragmatism of a market which already anticipates it.
Starting with the auctioneer, Alexandre Millon, who attacked not the paintings - collectors keep them warm - but his printed work, which is even rarer.
It is limited to 43 engravings, 49 lithographs, 26 serigraphs, i.e. 118 prints ranging from 65 to 300 copies.
The Rodez museum, devoted to the work of the painter, gives them pride of place in the "engraving room", a space protected from bright light penetrating through the huge north-facing windows and also showing documents and tools that were used to their manufacture.
In April 2022, the Millon study inaugurated a first sale.
On the strength of its commercial success, it is launching a second, this Monday, September 19, with 29 lots, part of which comes from the collector Claude C., who had, as he explains in the…
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