Rating and value of sculptures and furniture by Albert Féraud

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Rating and value of Albert Féraud's works

Albert Féraud produced unique sculptures. Now, prices for his creations can rise considerably under the auctioneer's hammer. His sculptures are particularly prized, by buyers from all over the world.

The price at which they sell on the art market ranges from €15 to €16,000, at the moment, a consequent gap but one that says a lot about the value that can be attributed to the works of Albert Féraud, whose output is very abundant.

In 2007, his metal sculpture Sans titre sold for €16,000, originally estimated at between €10,000 and €12,000.

The upside potential for Albert Féraud's works on the auction market is therefore quite significant. Sculpture, particularly in metal, has been very successful of late, reaching auction records.

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Style and technique by artist Albert Féraud   

Albert Féraud (1921 - 2008) is a major French abstract sculptor. Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, Marseille and Paris in Alfred Janiot's studio, he was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1951.

He first worked in stone and bronze in the 1950s, before exploring the recovery of materials such as lead, iron and stainless steel from landfill sites and car wrecks from 1960 onwards. In this sense, his approach is somewhat similar to that of César.

He conducts welded assembly work, creating stainless steel and ordinary steel forms, sometimes monumental, with an apparent weld as a visual signature.

His work is marked by a lyrical abstraction, composed of projected lines, curves, volutes and arabesques carried into three-dimensional space.

The structure is airy yet rigorous, and classical balance meets airy, dynamic expression, reflecting a great plastic mastery of his compositions.

There is a notable transition in his work between academic figurative art (Roman period) and post-1960 industrial fragmentary abstraction. He follows in the footsteps of the " récupérateurs " sculptors of the 60s, such as Arman or Michel Guino.

His work was exhibited in international public spaces (Basel, Zurich, Montreal, Frankfurt) and integrated into the Musée national d'art moderne from 1961. He created monumental sculptures such as Signal (1973, stainless steel) and Galaxie (1986, freeway), reflecting his interest in the impact of urban space.

The works are both technical (use of stainless steel, mastery of welded forms) and poetic, so as to question the relationship between the body and the environment. The artist was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1989, sitting in the sculpture section.

He was promoted to Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 2002, thanks to his figure in 20th-century French sculpture, which blends technical innovation with visual legibility.

The career of Albert Féraud   

Albert Féraud was born in 1921 in Paris. He trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, then in Marseille and finally in Paris in Alfred Janiot's studio.

He won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture in 1951, which opened the doors to the Villa Medici in Rome for several years of advanced training, between 1952 and 1956.

He began his career with works that were still figurative and classical, influenced by his academic training and the antique models he had observed in Rome. From the 1960s onwards, he made a radical turn towards abstraction.

This was when he began working with reclaimed materials: steel, sheet metal, aluminum and lead, often from industrial scrap metal. He specialized in welded sculpture, and became a major representative of the informal, abstract movement in sculpture, close to the generation of New Realists.

He began exhibiting in the 1960s in France and internationally (Basel, Zurich, Montreal, Frankfurt, New York...). His work is represented in several major public collections, including the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which acquired a work in 1961. He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1989, in the sculpture section.

Féraud thus joined a generation of artists who brought contemporary art into traditional institutions. He died in Paris in 2008, leaving behind him a body of work marked by formal audacity, the expressive power of metal and an ability to engage in dialogue with urban space.

Parallel to César or Jean Tinguely, Féraud embodies a resolutely energetic, industrial, poetic 20th-century sculpture rooted in raw material.

Focus on Galaxie, 1986, Albert Féraud

Galaxie is a polished and assembled stainless steel work of monumental dimensions, installed at the Passy freeway service area (Haute-Savoie), on the Route de la Sculpture contemporaine.

The sculpture is made up of intertwined steel blades, curves and ribbons, creating a spiraloid dynamic evoking orbital or cosmic motion. He uses arc welding, visible in certain areas. Féraud does not conceal the seam of the metal, but turns it into a plastic element.

The reflective metal surface interacts with the environment (natural light, alpine landscapes, changing skies). The piece is entirely abstract, with no direct reference to the body or the animal world, but with a strong symbolic charge.

Galaxy thus evokes both science and poetry, combining the idea of cosmic order with an explosion of form. (orbits, energy flows, stellar trajectories).

The sculpture is open, non-narrative, but its expansive form invites the eye to turn around and follow its lines like an endless spiral. The work is designed to blend into the environment, and to be a moving sight, from the road, in a mountain landscape.

By its format and brilliance, Galaxie acts as a visual beacon, a landscape sculpture that dialogues with the sky and surrounding peaks.

Féraud conceived here an accessible work that offers itself to all without museum or cartel, in a place of passage and on the scale of the territory. It synthesizes Féraud's research into energy, metal, emptiness and pure form. It extends his preoccupations with gesture, controlled imbalance and writing in space.

This work bears witness to his artistic maturity and his commitment to a public sculpture that is monumental, poetic but not decorative.

Recognizing Albert Féraud's signature   

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