Jehan Legac

Attracting bidders from the US, Asia and beyond, our 20th and 21st Century Art auctions sold 96% by lot and 99% by value. Jackson Pollock’s Number 7A, 1948 achieved $181.2 million, Constantin Brancusi’s Danaïde realised $107.6 million and Mark Rothko’s No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe) sold for $98.4 million — all three masterpieces set new world auction records. The sheer scale of recent transactions is staggering. One piece of correspondence noted the significance of New York's $2.5...

La Caverne du Pont Neuf (2026). Anything goes to get noticed. Creating something ugly requires the same energy as creating something beautiful, but lately "ugly" is in the spotlight. We could say that the uglier it is, the greater the chance of success. JR, a new artist who came out of nowhere, confirms this rule with a new black and white printed cave installation on one of the most beautiful bridges in Paris and undoubtedly the oldest. Is it really reasonable to offer such a setting to...

The female figure in contemporary painting: what it carries, what it refuses, and where the conversation stands today. Chrysalis 150 x 150 cm, 60 x 60 in. | Original Oil Painting on Canvas For most of Western art history, the female body was a surface available for arrangement, idealization, and consumption. The painter looked; the figure held still. That arrangement has, over the past three decades, been methodically taken apart. What replaced it is more complex and harder to define: a set...