A painting by Eduardo Arroyo or Martin Barré, a manuscript on the history of Ancient Egypt, a Putoka from the Marquesas Islands or a little Christ as the Good Shepherd sculpted by Christoph Daniel Schenck … Every month, the curators select and showcase one of the treasures housed at the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, revealing its history and background.
April 2024 Decorative Arts
<i>Lavamano</i> with diabolic motifs
Circa 1505-1520
Tuscany
March 2024 Ethnology
Ridge post
Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Makira province, Owa Raha, Gupuna village, late 19th century
February 2024 Fine Arts
Évelyne Axell (Namur, 1935 – Zwijnaarde, 1972)
Le Homard amoureux II
1968
January 2024 Archaeology
False door stela for the Lady Henut
Egypt (Saqqara ?)
2nd half IIIrd Millennium BC
December 2023 Decorative Arts
Daphnis and Chloe
After Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, in collaboration with Antoine and Charles Coypel
Circa 1718-1720
Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris
November 2023 Archaeology
Statuette of utrarius dwarf
Egypt (Alexandria), late 1st century BC – early 1st century AD.
October 2023 Fine Arts
ZAO Wou-Ki (Beijing [CN], 1920 — Nyon [CH], 2013)
30.10.61
30 October 1961
September 2023 African Contemporary Art and of the Diaspora
Georgina Maxim (Harare, Zimbabwe, 1980)
Dear Fesmeri and Mareni, the dress doesn’t fit III
2022
August 2023 Ethnology
Ray-shaped pendant
Costa Rica (Chiriqui) or Panama (Coclé), 11th – 12th century AD.
July 2023 Archaeology
Black-topped predynastic jar
Predynastic period, Naqada II (ca. 3500 – 3400 BC)
June 2023 Fine Arts
Georges Noël (Bézier, 1924 – Paris, 2010)
Palimpseste impérial n° 1
1960
May 2023 Ethnology
Fan
Polynesia, Marquesas Islands, half of the 19th century
April 2023 Decorative Arts
Christ on the Cold Stone
Circa 1490
March 2023 Fine Arts
Ivan MESSAC (Caen, 1948)
Black Panther, Tigre de papier
1969
February 2023 African Contemporary Art and of the Diaspora
Jamal Nxedlana (Durban, South Africa, 1985)
Model 2 of the series #0047bb
2022
January 2023 Archaeology
Cosmetic spoon with papyrus bundle decoration
New Kingdom , 19th-20th dynasty ( ca 1291 – 1075 BC)
December 2022 Decorative Arts
Claude-Charles Saunier (Paris, 1735 - Paris, 1807)
Cylinder desk
Circa 1780-1790
November 2022 Fine Arts
Gérard Schlosser (Lille, 1931 – Paris, 2022)
Il s’en fout – Le contre-procès de Lens
1971
October 2022 Fine Arts
Maria Helena VIEIRA DA SILVA (Lisbon, 1908 – Paris, 1992)
Paris, la nuit (Paris At Night)
1951
September 2022 African Contemporary Art and of the Diaspora
Ian MWESIGA
The Telephone Call
2018
August 2022 Archaeology
Semi-column with a sad Attis
Asia Minor (Cyzicus), 2nd century AD
July 2022 Archaeology
Scaraboid commemorating the wild bull hunt of Amenhotep III
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign ofAmenhotep III, (1387 – 1350 BC)
June 2022 Fine Arts
Yolande FIÈVRE
Le Festival de l’assassin [The Assassin's Festival]
1961
May 2022 African Contemporary Art and of the Diaspora
Turiya MAGADLELA
Walking Spirits IV, V & VI from the series Inequalities
2018-2019
April 2022 Decorative Arts
Entourage of the Embriachi Workshop
Marriage Casket
Circa 1400-1420
February 2022 Fine Arts
Jean TINGUELY
Méta-Herbin
1955
January 2022 Archaeology
Statue of the goose of Amun
Third Intermediate Period, c. 1075 - 664 BC.
December 2021 Decorative Arts
Pierre Soulages
Vase (known as the “Sèvres Vase” or “Soulages Vase”)
2000-2008
November 2021 African Contemporary Art and of the Diaspora
Tessa MARS
L’Épouse
2017
October 2021 Ethnology
Rom mask
Vanuatu (Ambrym)
1957
September 2021 Fine Arts
Jean-Michel ATLAN
Sans titre [Untitled]
1949
July 2021 Fine Arts
Alfred MANESSIER
Polders enneigés [Snow-Covered Polders]
1956
June 2021 Decorative Arts
Horloge automate « au lion »
Circa 1630
Southern Germany
May 2021 Fine Arts
César (César Baldaccini, dit) (Marseille, 1921 – Paris, 1998)
Arrachage
1962
March 2021 African Contemporary Art and of the Diaspora
Léonce Raphaël AGBODJELOU
Untitled (series Les Demoiselles de Porto-Novo)
2012
February 2021 Ethnology
Pendant in the shape of a vampire bat
Costa Rica, Diquis culture, 13th – 16th century A.D.
January 2021 Archaeology
New Year’s flask with the name of Ahmose II
Late Period, 26th dynasty, reign of pharaoh Ahmose II, ca. 570–526 BC
December 2020 African Contemporary Art and of the Diaspora
November 2020 Ethnology
Armour
Kiribati, mid-19th century AD
October 2020 Decorative Arts
Hans Weber (active 1588-1634)
Traubenpokal (Hanap [goblet] in the form of a bunch of grapes)
Circa 1609-1629
September 2020 Archaeology
Foundation figure of Ur-Namma
Mesopotamia, land of Sumer, late 3rd millennium BC.
August 2020 Fine Arts
Josep GRAU-GARRIGA
Hores de llum i de foscor
1986
July 2020 Fine Arts
Jacques VILLEGLÉ
Rue au Maire
February 1960
June 2020 Decorative Arts
Nicolas PIPER D’ARRAS, known as Niccolò PIPPI (attr.)
Descent from the Cross
Circa 1580-1585
Rome
May 2020 Ethnology
(left)
Moai tangata
Rapa Nui, early 19th century AD
(right)
Moai tangata
Rapa Nui, mid-19th century AD
April 2020 Decorative Arts
Casket with putti decoration
c. 1550
Limoges
March 2020 Archaeology
Statue of Silenus holding a kantharos
Greece, 1st-2nd century AD
February 2020 Fine Arts
Hans HARTUNG
T 1946–9
1946
January 2020 Archaeology
A female fertility figure
Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty XVIII-XIX, ca. 1550-1291 BC
December 2019 Decorative Arts
Allégorie de l’Afrique
Circa 1720-1750
France or Spain
November 2019 Ethnology
Amphibian-shaped pendant (axolotl?)
Panama or Costa Rica, Xth – XVth century AD
October 2019 Fine Arts
Georges MATHIEU
Évanescence
1945
September 2019 Archaeology
Head of prince
Cyprus, end of the VIth Century BC
August 2019 Archaeology
Relief with the epithets and names of Alexander the Great
Macedonian Period, reign of Alexander the Great
July 2019 Ethnology
Costume à masque de deuilleur Apouéma
Nouvelle-Calédonie, Grande Terre, première moitié du XIXe siècle après J.-C.
June 2019 Fine Arts
Gérard FROMANGER
Le Voyou (série Boulevard des Italiens)
1971
May 2019 Decorative Arts
Incense boat
13th century
Limoges
April 2019 Archaeology
Bust in the shape of Dionysos Tauros
Egypt, Alexandria, IInd – Ist Century BC
March 2019 Fine Arts
Joan MITCHELL
Untitled
1952-1953
February 2019 Archaeology
Statuette of the goddess Isis-Hededyt nursing Horus
Origin unknown
Dynasty 25th
January 2019 Decorative Arts
Nicolas DE HAGUENAU or HAGUENAUER
The Last Supper
Strasbourg, circa 1490-1500
December 2018 Ethnology
Mask of a forest spirit (kavat)
Papua New Guinea, New Britain island, Gazelle peninsula
End XIXth – beginning XXth Century AD
November 2018 Archaeology
Shell
Greece or South Italy, IInd – Ist Century BC
October 2018 Fine Arts
Peter STÄMPFLI
Drink
1964
September 2018 Archaeology
Shabti of pharaoh Siptah
New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, reign of pharaoh Siptah
Around 1193-1187 B.C
August 2018 Fine Arts
Amédée OZENFANT
Table, pipe, livres, bouteille, papier
1917
July 2018 Decorative Arts
« La Fayette » Dressing Table
France, circa 1790
June 2018 Ethnology
Stirrup-spout bottle in shape of a fox
IVth – Vth Century CE
May 2018 Fine Arts
Jean FAUTRIER
Sarah
1943
April 2018 Archaeology
Stater of Nectanebo II
Egypt, 360-342 BC
March 2018 Fine Arts
Eduardo ARROYO
Cuatrodedos
1963
February 2018 Decorative Arts
Christoph Daniel SCHENCK
Christ as the Good Shepherd
Constance, 1677
January 2018 Archaeology
Fish plate
South Italy
340-320 BCE
December 2017 Ethnology
Trumpet-shell or Putoka
End XVIIIth-first part XIXth Century CE
November 2017 Fine Arts
Peter STÄMPFLI
The Cigarette
1964
October 2017 Decorative Arts
Francesco XANTO AVELLI DA ROVIGO
Dish : Pan’s Competition
Urbino, circa 1530
September 2017 Archaeology
The Ram of Schliemann
Greece or Asia Minor, end IVth-Ist Century BC
August 2017 Fine Arts
Peter STÄMPFLI
190 L 1
1975
July 2017 Archaeology
Jean-François CHAMPOLLION
A Manuscript for the History of Ancient Egypt
Written between July and December, 1824
June 2017 Fine Arts
Öyvind FAHLSTRÖM
K.-en-K.
1959
May 2017 Decorative Arts
Martin VAN DEN BOGAERT said DESJARDINS
Samson wrestling the Lion and Judgement of Salomon
1662
April 2017 Archaeology
A finger ring depicting Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II
Seems to have been created in Alexandria, Egypt, 170-163 and 145-116 BC
March 2017 Fine Arts
Martin BARRÉ
57-50-B
1957
February 2017 Archaeology
Sultry Aphrodite
Menophilos
Myrina, Mid Ist century CE
