FOC de Prometeu
Assets and Projects Portfolio 2012
FOC de Prometeu
Assets and Projects Portfolio 2012
Innovative Projects One of our aims at FOC de Prometeu (Prometheus ´FIRE) is to represent and promote the best artists and scientists worldwide. as well to facilitate the emergence and development of new artists, scientific researchers and entrepreneurs. In order to do so we are setting up a web 2.0 IT platform based on the crowd-funding principle, unique in the Chinese market and East Asia, to enable venutre capitalists, business angels, all sort of investors and the final users to endorse and invest in the most cutting edge projects and innovators without intermediaries, either in exchange of equity, shares, the product of their research or the creative process, or any other proposed reward by the creators of the projects.
Ideas Worth Spreading In collboration with TED conferences, the 1st of May 2013 we will be holding a new TEDx event in Shanghai, gathering the most prominent speakers in the fields of Open Innovation, Open Education,
Off-Market Brokerage We offer confidential international sales of boutique hotels, resorts, palaces, castles, singular buildings, villas, houses, flats and other properties in Monaco, French Rivieva, London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and all major European cities and tourist destinations.
Private Art Sales We represent the finnest artists of all time, classic and modern masters from the Renaissance to the XXth century. All our artworks are privately owned. Many of them have never been publicicly auctioned. As the debt crisis is hittimg the West, more and more excellent pieces are popping out in the market offering unique investment opportunities:
¨David & Goliath¨, Caravaggio ¨Le Pont de Trinquetaille¨, Vincent Van Gogh ¨Coin du Parc Voyer d'Argenson a Ansieres¨, V. Van Gogh ¨La Rue a Moret¨, Alfred Sisley ¨Eternal Printemps¨, Auguste Rodin ¨Paysage ses Environs s'Aix En Provence¨, Paul Cezanne ¨Les nymphéas¨, Claude Monet ¨Camille et Jean Monet au Jardin d'Argenteuil¨, C. Monet ¨In a Gondola (Jane de Glehn)¨, John Singer Sargent ¨Standing Nude¨, Rene Magritte ¨Homme Assis 4¨, Pablo Picasso ¨Verre Taile Sur un Fond Rose¨, Pablo Picasso ¨Lenin¨ 1987, Andy Warhol
David & Goliath (David with the Head of Goliath) 1607, Oil on canvas, 125 cm × 101 cm The date of this piece is unclear because its color palette is characteristic of Caravaggio’s earlier Naples years (1606-1608), but it is also believed to have been painted at the end of Caravaggio’s life. The earlier date is carried more evidence in terms of style, for how was he to know he would die in 1610. The painting was found in Naples and made its way into Scipione Borghese’s private collection (Moir 116). In 1606, Caravaggio murdered a man. Helen Langdon explains how this piece could be a plea for pardon from the pope. Caravaggio’s culture was obsessed with salvation and redemption. Prisoners and criminals were visually tortured with images of cruelty and violence in order to evoke penitence (384-385). This could be why Caravaggio decided to paint such an image for his own redemption.
Caravaggio (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.
Le Pont de Trinquetaille 1888, Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm. 38 million US$. Painted in Arles, Van Gogh was fascinated by the Provence's light.
Coin du parc Voyer d'Argenson à Asnières 1887, Oil on canvas , 49 x 65 cm. 30 million US$. The artworks that Van Gogh did in Asnières mark a breakthrough in his artistic development.
Vincent Van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890. Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted. His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still. Now, together with those of Pablo Picasso, Van Gogh's works are among the world's most acclaimed and expensive.
La Rue a Moret 1887, Oil On Canvas. 2 million US $. Private collection, New York. Other works from the author are also available.
Alfred Sisley 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899. Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs.
Eternal Printemps Probably modeled 1881. The eternal Sprintemps was an extremely popular sculpture, Rodin repeated it often both in marble and in bronze. This is an extremely exclusive opportunity.
Auguste Rodin 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917. François-Auguste-René Rodin was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. Many of his most notable sculptures were roundly criticized during his lifetime. They clashed with the predominant figure sculpture tradition, in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic. Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality. Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, but refused to change his style.
Paysage ses Environs s'Aix En Provence 1865, Oil on Canvas, 40.5 by 59.5 cm
Paul Cezanne 1839–1906, Cezanne was a French artist and PostImpressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" cannot be easily dismissed.
Les nymphéas (Water Lilies) 219 x 602 cm, two pieces, 26 and 41 US$. The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. The works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.
Claude Monet 14-11-1840 – 5-12-1926. Founder of impressionis and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).
Camille et Jean Monet au Jardin d'Argenteuil
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1873, 131 x 97 cm, Oil on Canvas. Splendid family scene of, and by, the founder of impressionism.
In a Gondola (Jane de Glehn) 1904, 44.45 x 31.75, Watercolor on Paper, 2.5 million US$. Painted in Venice.
John Singer Sargent 12 January, 1856 – 14 April , 1925. American artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida. Sargent's popularity has increased steadily since the 1950s. In the 1960s, a revival of Victorian art and new scholarship directed at Sargent strengthened his reputation. In 1986, Andy Warhol commented to Sargent scholar Trevor Fairbrother that Sargent "made everybody look glamorous, taller, thinner. But they all have mood, every one of them has a dierent mood." In a Time Magazine article from the 1980's, critic Robert Hughes praised Sargent as "the unrivaled recorder of male power and female beauty in a day that, like ours, paid excessive court to both."
Standing Nude Not the prtrayed painting, information on request.
Rene Magritte 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967. René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thoughtprovoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism. His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. Magritte's style of surrealism is more representational than the "automatic" style of artists such as Joan Miró. Magritte's use of ordinary objects in unfamiliar spaces is joined to his desire to create poetic imagery. He described the act of painting as "the art of putting colors side by side in such a way that their real aspect is effaced, so that familiar objects—the sky, people, trees, mountains, furniture, the stars, solid structures, graffiti—become united in a single poetically disciplined image. The poetry of this image dispenses with any symbolic significance, old or new.” René Magritte described his paintings as "visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."
Homme Assis 4 Verre Tailee Sur Un Fond Rose 13 mill. US$ and 2 mill. US$ respectively.
Pablo Picasso 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for cofounding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are commonly regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th century art.
Lenin 1987, 99 x 99 cm, Screenprint on Arches, 11 mill. US$. Certified by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board.
Andy Warhol August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987. One of the most famous American artists of all time, the leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. Pop art was an experimental form that several artists were independently adopting; some of these pioneers, such as Roy Lichtenstein, would later become synonymous with the movement. Warhol, who would become famous as the "Pope of Pop", turned to this new style, where popular subjects could be part of the artist's palette. Warhol's first pop art paintings were displayed in April 1961, serving as the backdrop for New York Department Store Bronwit Teller's window display. This was the same stage his Pop Art contemporaries Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenberg had also once graced. Eventually, Warhol pared his image vocabulary down to the icon itself – to brand names, celebrities, dollar signs – and removed all traces of the artist's "hand" in the production of his paintings.
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