Raphaël Maket, expert in modern paintings - 1850 to today

Raphaël Maket, your expert in modern painting

Raphaël Maket, in his expertise of the modern schools, focuses on recognizing stylistic filiations and the singularities of a work, in the light of technical and historical research.

Analysis of textures, stratigraphy of pictorial layers and examination of supports are all elements that the expert relates to the iconographic repertoires of the 20th century.

At Maket, his focus is on the manifestations of Post-Impressionism, the École de Paris and the European avant-gardes, continuing his work of recognizing and putting into perspective major artists and figures still on the bangs of the great academic corpus.

Raphaël Maket's research finds resonance in the study of corpora of painters such as Émile Othon Friesz, Charles Dufresne, Francis Gruber or Marcel Gromaire, whose play on materials and graphic biases call for careful deciphering.

He also studies the plastic experiments of singular figures such as Léon Zack, Jean Le Moal or Alfred Manessier, at the crossroads of Fauvist legacies and abstract trends in the second half of the 20th century.

Analysis of chromatic variations and modulations of touch guide his expert assessments, in an approach based on the confrontation of works and archival sources.

A study of provenance and sales channels enables us to refine the material history of paintings and shed light on their trajectory on the market.

Examples of works representing each current :

-      Impressionism : Meules by Claude Monet (1890, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Bal du moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Le Pont de l'Europe by Gustave Caillebotte (1876, Petit Palais, Geneva).

-        Post-impressionism : La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves by Paul Cézanne (1904-1906, Philadelphia Museum of Art), Starry Night de Vincent van Gogh (1889, MoMA, New York), La vision après le sermon de Paul Gauguin (1888, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh).

-       Fauvism : La Danse by Henri Matisse (1910, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), Le port de Collioure by André Derain (1905, Musée d'Art moderne de Troyes), La Fenêtre ouverte by Raoul Dufy (1928, Centre Pompidou, Paris).

-      Cubism : L'Homme à la guitare by Georges Braque (1914, MoMA, New York), Violons et raisins by Pablo Picasso (1912, MoMA, New York).

-      Futurism : Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash by Giacomo Balla (1912, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo), Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Umberto Boccioni (1913, MoMA, New York), Train en marche by Gino Severini (1915, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome).

-      Lyrical abstraction : Painting, 195×130 cm, 1953 by Hans Hartung (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Composition VIII by Vassily Kandinsky (1923, Guggenheim Museum, New York), Champs de tension by Pierre Soulages (1961, Musée Soulages, Rodez).

-      Surrealism : La persistance de la mémoire by Salvador Dalí (1931, MoMA, New York), L'Empire des lumières by René Magritte (1954, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice), Le Château dans les Pyrénées by Leonora Carrington (1959, Tate Modern, London).

-      Expressionist Abstract : Number 1A, 1948 by Jackson Pollock (MoMA, New York), Woman I by Willem de Kooning (1950-52, MoMA, New York), Vir heroicus sublimis by Barnett Newman (1950-51, MoMA, New York).

Through this approach, Raphaël Maket participates in the revaluation of artists whom historiography has sometimes left in the background, while consolidating the attributions and estimates of major works of modernism.

His work, articulated around the examination of stylistic singularities and pictorial materiality, is part of a commitment to scientific rigor and the transmission of knowledge about twentieth-century painting. 

Contact Raphaël Maket for your estimates 

Whether you own a Cubist painting by Villon, an abstract composition by Buffet or an original lithograph by Soulages, Raphaël Maket is your reference expert for a reliable and detailed appraisal.

Don't hesitate to contact him for an accurate appraisal and to discover the true value of your modern works.