Alberto Giacometti - Harlequin with Guitar, drawing

Alberto Giacometti : (1901-1966) is a swiss painter and sculptor, one of the most important artist of the XXth century. He is considered as close to the surrealists. His works are sought for by collectors around the world. In 2010, the sculpture "L'Homme qui marche I" was sold 74,2 millions of euros, three times more than its original estimation. Two small sculptures, entitled "Projet pour un monument pour Gabriel Péri" and "Projet pour une place" were sold in 2007 1,5 M€. His works are conserved in the most prestigious museums in the world.
André Derain : (1880-1954) was a french painter, and one of the founders of Fauvism, of which he is considered to be the best representative. Ses oeuvres sont conservées dans les plus grands musées du monde. He painted figures, portraits, nudes, landscapes, marines, still lifes, and used several techniques: gouache, watercolors, pastels. He entered the Académie Camillo with Eugène Carrière and met Henri Matisse a the Louvre where he was making copies. In 1900, he met Maurice de Vlaminck on the train. He started painting his first landscapes. Il commence à peindre ses premiers paysages. He was a self-taught person, and he spent a lot of time in the museums, feeding his esthetic reflexion, with a great amound of readings (Zola, Nietzsche...). Vincent van Gogh, who he discovered in 1901, had a decisive influence on him, as well as the neo-impressionnists, and most of all Cézanne. He joined Matisse in Collioure in 1905, where they defined the style which made him famous: the fauvism. After 1906, he seemed to get influence from Paul Gauguin, as his colours started to be less vivid. But the next year he spent time at the Bateau-Lavoir, where he met Picasso and Matisse a with whom he traveled in Barcelona in 1910. In 1907, he tried stone sculpture, and moved to Montmartre to get closer to his friend Pablo Picasso. Starting from 1911, he comes back to a more traditional painting, using perspective and claroscuro. In 1919, he worked for ballet Diaghilev's ballet "La Boutique fantasque", which brought him to create numerous decors and costumes. His reputation grew more when he received the Carnegie Prize in 1928, and he started to exhibit worldwide: London, Berlin, Krankfurt, Düsseldorf, New York... After the war, he gave up public presentations of his works. In 1944, he declined the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (ENSBA). He ended his life in a voluntary loneliness, and died on September the 8th, in 1958, following a car accident.

Fondation Beyeler (Switzerland)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (The USA)
Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland)
The Broad Art Foundation (The USA)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Schaulager - Emmanuel Hoffmann Foundation (Switzerland)
Fondation Giacometti (France)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal)
Musée Cantini (France)
Collection of Esther Grether (Switzerland)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection (Germany)
The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
Museum Berggruen (Germany)
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (The USA)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)
Kunsthaus Zurich (Switzerland)
Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght (France)
Queensland art Gallery (Australia)
Musée Granet (France)
Arkansas Arts Center (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany)
Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection (Germany)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
Collection André et Bona Pieyre de Mandiargues
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark)
Lehmbruck Museum (Germany)
Städelmuseum (Germany)
National Gallery of Art, Washington (The USA)
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Horsens Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Boca Raton Museum of art (The USA)
MUSMA Museo della Scultura Contemporanea Matera (Italy)
Palm Springs Art Museum (The USA)
Raymond & Patsy Nasher Collection (The USA)
MUMOK - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Austria)
The Yale University art gallery (The USA)
The Hubert Looser Collection (Switzerland)
Israel Museum (Israel)
Kunstmuseum Luzern (Switzerland)
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Albertina (Austria)
Musée cantonal des Beaux arts, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italy)
Sprengel Museum (Germany)
LEEUM Samsung Museum of art (South Korea)
Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) (The USA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (The USA)
UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art (The USA)
Sara Hildén Art Museum (Finland)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
High Museum of Art (The USA)
North Carolina Museum of Art (The USA)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Spain)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany)
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (The USA)
The Art Institute of Chicago (The USA)
Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan)
Des Moines Art Center (The USA)
Saint Louis Museum of Art (The USA)
Moca Andros (Greece)
Holstebro Kunstmuseum (Denmark)