A statutory change that meets officiallyMore reason to focus on the quality of the indexFor its part Metrobus had also asked a vetoThe main centre of SNCF freight losses isolated car iWhat will you do nowEverything is going very fastdespite its central role in the existenceSince midSeptember the stock markets mark wayNothing is more subjective than the soundOfficially of course nothing will changeAnd this trend is also leadership positionsIt is a radical Act. On 27 October, the well known French artist Jean-Pierre Raynaud (born 1939) auction, under the hammer of Christie's in Paris, will be 80 works from his personal collection which mark his career since 1962. All estimated 800,000 euros, but everything is sold without reserve, without lower limit price. For him, this implementation to the auction is an artistic gesture. "Unfortunately, today, art is a product of consumption, explains - it.". If I am a respected artist I have projects in France and abroad , I also know that I am not a particularly side artist. I am not in the classical system of galleries because I have no representative exclusive. 
It is quite lucid about the risks he takes.
"I am not crazy." Any artist knows that he should not disperse 80 works at the same time on the market. Everything is sold without a reserve price. It is therefore likely, for example, parts dating back to the 1960s go for 1,000 euros barely. These auction could be a fiasco, and if this is the case, for me, paradoxically, this will be synonymous with success. A challenge to a time when the economy is everything. I have participated in awareness of the influence of money on art today.
Heir of Marcel Duchamp
Jean-Pierre Raynaud is not a masochist. "I know that for me this auction is a luxury." I the can after thirty-five year career. In fact, I sell the contents of the exhibition was the Nice Mamac until September 10. One night when I was only to prepare the exhibition, by looking at the rooms, I saw forty-four years of my life scroll. It has upset me. I thought that it could not return to boxes. My first idea was to destroy them. Then I thought to disperse them, sell without reserve price.
Jean-Pierre Raynaud has accustomed the French scene in his beating of theatre. Since 1973, he had marked the artistic landscape by creations based on white tiles ringed black associated with objects which created an evocative composition. The obvious work of Jean-Pierre Raynaud was a House, a bunker in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, place of detention but also extreme aesthetic creation. In 1993, in an exhibition at the LCDR of Bordeaux, the Museum of contemporary art, he learned to the public that the bunker was destroyed. LCDR shows thousand pans of metal containing debris of the House-work of art. The nave of the Museum, an 18th-century warehouse, filled these aligned brilliant pans, then offers a dramatic spectacle. 1,000 Bowls are then sold 10,000 francs piece by the artist. Christie's catalogue presents other remains of the bunker. Alignment of not less than 600 cartons containing earthenware tiles and materials of construction is estimated 80.000 euros. Ten boxes dating back to 1993 containing debris are also assigned to the unit with an estimate of 6,000 euros.
Raynaud is one of the worthy heirs of Marcel Duchamp. It uses everyday objects to send a message. This former horticulturist will be marked minds among others by his appropriation of the jar of Earth he designed oversized and colorful. Somehow, it has become one of the emblems of the French with a golden top copy contemporary art of 3.5 metres posted on the Piazza of the Pompidou Centre since 1998. The same was shown in 1996 in Beijing, in the forbidden city, and Jean-Pierre Raynaud, shortly, should install a pink specimen in the sea, Buzan, Korea, top 8 metres.
Evocation of violence
At Christie's, there are pots of size smaller. This is the case, for example, a copy of 1966 painted in red with a height of 42 inches (estimate: 10,000 euros) or a pair of the same year and the same color (38 cm high) (estimate: 10,000 euros).
The period regarded as iconic in this artist is psycho-objects of the years 1964-68, that evoke the subject of childhood, of intimacy, of pain, trauma. It is well represented in the sale with, for example, the "psycho-object slippers" which dated from the year 1966. Seen in a bulwark of nails painted white, whose point is drawn up towards the top, a pair of cute shoes of ballasted children by cement. (estimate: 15,000 euros). In 1963, in the same spirit, he had achieved a black rectangular room surmounted by threatening points, as found at the top of the gates of the French properties (estimate: 18,000 euros). Evocation of the revolution, violence or the risk of violation of the property... This work has a significant pedigree through exposure to the Menil Collection in Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal and the National Gallery of the Jeu de paume, Paris.
In fact, there is no common measure price estimated in the sale and the art foundation of the work. That said, the rating of Jean-Pierre Raynaud is especially its base in France and in the neighboring countries are the Belgium and the Germany. He however was exposed to New York in the legend dealer Leo Castelli. A "Tile numbered", abstract work consisting of a rectangle of white earthenware which is hung a number made of metal, which had been shown in 1991 in New York, estimated 7,000 euros.
"It is the first time that an artist selling his work in this way," says Florence de Botton, contemporary art at Christie's. "It has completely played auction." It is a kind of one - man show which will take place during the FIAC. "It is, however, confident as to the conduct of the auction. "Raynaud is an artist well supported by its collectors." Clearly, the State also supports the work of the artist, since last June he bought his house in La Garenne-Colombes, to soon become a museum Raynaud.
