François Tajan, the deputy chairman of the Paris-based auction house Artcurial, has died aged 57 after suffering from food poisoning. A spokeswoman for Artcurial says: “It is with great sadness that ...

Claude Lalanne’s gilt-bronze Banquette Crocodile is one of the designer’s most sought-after pieces, the realism of its reptiles coming as a result of a trip to the Paris zoo in 1972. It seems the ...

Pierre Soulages, the dedicated French abstractionist famed for his energetic black brushwork, could not have painted much more differently than Wayne Thiebaud, the American artist best known for his ...

The French auction house Tajan announced today that a drawing taken to its Paris branch has been authenticated as a Leonardo da Vinci by a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The drawing, which ...

Ella Kruglyanskaya is a contemporary Latvian painter known for her stylized depictions of female figures engage in various actions. Kruglyanskaya’s practice intends to engage with the historical ...

François chose a career in auctioneering in 1990 by joining the family auction firm Tajan S A. He moved to Artcurial 15 years later and has since auctioned more than 80,000 works as well as leading ...

Dr. Majid Tajan-Jari was a child who didn’t just take apart a broken radio but pieced its scattered fragments together like a puzzle, crafting a future with his small hands—a future that still echoes ...