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Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will offer the collection of Claude and Grazyna Cluzel as part of its live Post-War and Contemporary Art auction on 4 June in Paris. The single-owner sale brings together 35 American and European paintings assembled over more than five decades, spanning the leading names of Minimalism alongside demanding French and Italian artists.
The sale is led by a major historical work by Frank Stella (1936 to 2024), created in 1967 and titled Costa Mesa. Exhibited at the Templon Gallery in 1981 and held in the same collection for nearly 50 years, the imposing alkyd on canvas is estimated at €1.5 million to €2 million.
Minimal art is strongly represented, with works by Carl Andre, Sol Le Witt, Kenneth Noland, Jesús Rafael Soto and Frank Stella, whose practices emphasise geometry, repetition and a disciplined use of colour. Claude Cluzel, who trained at the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics in Paris, began his career as an engineer and, alongside his wife Grazyna, built the collection through regular visits to leading European and American galleries and international art fairs.
Highlights from the Cluzel Collection include Sol Le Witt’s Untitled, a 1972 painted steel structure first exhibited in 1965 at the John Daniels Gallery in New York (estimate €150,000 to €200,000); Soto’s Espace virtuel gris et noir of 1966, acquired by Claude Cluzel in 1974 (estimate €120,000 to €180,000); Kenneth Noland’s Color Field work Wayward Red of 1976 (estimate €50,000 to €70,000); and Carl Andre’s 25 TX Steel Square of 1975, composed of 25 squares of rolled steel (estimate €80,000 to €120,000). Georges Mathieu’s Composition of 1961 carries an estimate of €70,000 to €100,000.
Broader sale highlights include Mario Merz’s Untitled of 1990, an installation of neon tubes, stones and soil acquired directly from the artist and exhibited at the Espai Poblenou Foundation (estimate €370,000 to €570,000), and Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Attesa n.5 of 1962 to 1973, a silkscreen on mirror-polished stainless steel from his celebrated Mirror Paintings series (estimate €250,000 to €350,000).
Further lots include Ettore Spalletti’s Paesaggio, 15 of 2016 (estimate €100,000 to €150,000), Lee Ufan’s Relatum of 1978 in Corten steel and natural stones (estimate €100,000 to €150,000), and César’s Hommage à Eiffel of 1991, a welded bronze considered among the artist’s last monumental works (estimate €150,000 to €200,000).
(Press Release)
