Galerie Alexis Pentcheff, Buying, Selling and Appraisal of Modern Painting
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Founded in Marseille in 2009 by Alexis and Giulia Pentcheff, Galerie Alexis Pentcheff specialises in modern French painting and works on paper from 1850 to 1950, with a particular affinity for Post-Impressionism, the Nabis and Fauvism. True to its Marseille roots, it pays particular attention to the artists inspired by the light of the Mediterranean. It presents works by artists including Pierre Bonnard, Albert Marquet, Henri Martin and Henri Manguin. It also champions singular figures such as Joseph Inguimberty, Paul Jouve, Bernard Buffet and René Gruau, whose studio collection it has held since 2018.
Since October 2023, we have welcomed collectors and visitors to the Pavillon de la Reine Jeanne, a historic house set on the sea in the cove of Malmousque.
Alexis and Giulia Pentcheff, both experts in painting accredited by the CNES, offer free valuations and expert appraisals of paintings to anyone wishing to sell an artwork. Our commitment rests on transparency and in-depth knowledge of the market.
Monographic and thematic exhibitions, accompanied by catalogues, are regularly held at the gallery. We also take part in major international art fairs: TEFAF Maastricht, BRAFA in Brussels, Fine Arts Paris and the Salon du Dessin.
On our website, you can discover the works available for sale, explore our current and past exhibitions, order the corresponding catalogues and follow our news. Our restoration and framing workshops also welcome you for your artworks and antique frames.
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Available artworks
The gallery regularly presents works by Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and modern painters, with particular attention to the artists drawn to the Mediterranean. Captivated by its singular light, the masters of modernity crossed paths there, from Bonnard in Le Cannet to Manguin in Saint-Tropez, giving rise to an unprecedented artistic emulation that the gallery conveys through thematic exhibitions and discerning selections.
Since its opening, the gallery has specialised in 19th and 20th-century Provençal painting. Taking Émile Loubon and his resolutely modern teaching as a starting point, the gallery aims to highlight the artistic influence of Provence with his most illustrious students, including Raphaël Ponson (1835 - 1904), Paul Guiguou (1834 - 1971), Jean-Baptiste Olive (1848 - 1936), or Joseph Garibaldi (1863 - 1941). Following this approach, the gallery’s reach extends to the development of modernity in the region with the work of famous Marseilles figures, sometimes marginal ones, with René Seyssaud (1867 - 1952), Auguste Chabaud (1882 - 1955), Alfred Lombard (1884 - 1973), Pierre Girieud (1876 - 1948), Augustin Carrera (1878 - 1952), Louis-Mathieu Verdilhan (1875 - 1928) and Pierre Ambrogiani (1907 - 1985).
At the end of the 19th century, the history of the city of Marseille and its colonial past as a place of exchange and a strategic travelling point towards the East, led many painters to express a deep fascination for new lands. With Jospeh Inguimberty, then André Maire, and Paul Jouve, the gallery, through new exhibitions and publications seeks to take a fresh look at these travelling painters whose works, influenced by multiple peregrinations in Asia, India and Africa, have radically changed our Western perception.
During thematic temporary exhibitions and "hors les murs" projects, the gallery also presents works for sale from post-war and contemporary artists, forming a relevant dialogue between different times and pictorial styles. Always seeking artistic coherence, it features French and international artists whose discourse seems to support its voice and artistic selections.
Highly implied in René Gruau’s international representation, Galerie Alexis Pentcheff acquired the artist’s studio collection in 2018, gathering today the largest collection of original works in the world. The gallery aims to present all aspects of his work through diverse projects, including a retrospective held at the gallery in 2016 and international events showcasing gouaches, inks, and pencil on paper, in order to illustrate the richness and influence of his artistic production.
Exhibitions and events
Publications
dora maar
seule au bord de la terre
Giulia Pentcheff
| Publication year | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Format | 21 x 21 cm |
| ISBN | 9791094462119 |
Exhibition catalog at the Alexis Pentcheff Gallery in Marseille from March 10 to April 15, 2022
This exhibition catalog at the Alexis Pentcheff Gallery presents more than one hundred and sixty original works by Dora Maar, created between the 1960s and the end of her life, during a period when, separated from Picasso with whom she lived for nearly ten years, she gradually withdrew from the world, to paint and pray. Dora Maar, who in her youth was a photographer, close to the surrealists and avant-garde movements, devoted herself to painting on the advice of Picasso. In the secrecy of her Parisian studio or in that of her house of Ménerbes, in the Vaucluse, she creates poetic and abstract works, by which she dissociates herself and detaches herself from the influence of her former lover. All of the works in the exhibition come from the collection of Dominique de Roquemaurel-Galitzine, jewelry designer and artist, who had acquired, at the sales of the Dora Maar estate, three cartoons that were kept intact, like a treasure, on top of a cupboard for over twenty years. Having come down to us as a kind of time capsule, this collection of works allows us to better understand the artist's painted work and to grasp a research that she has not ceased to carry out since her surrealist works of the 1930s.
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Except during exhibitions, the gallery is open by appointment only for appraisals, valuations, and acquisitions.
During exhibitions, individual visits are open to the public during opening hours (as updated on the Google listing).
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10, chemin du Génie
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