Martial Raysse

French | 1936

Martial Raysse is a French Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1936. Their work is currently being shown at MAC VAL in Paris. Numerous key galleries and museums such as S.M.A.K. Ghent have featured Martial Raysse's work in the past.Martial Raysse's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 11 USD to 6,542,425 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 6,542,425 USD for Last Year in Capri (Exotic Title), sold at Christie's London in 2011. Martial Raysse has been featured in articles for Art Basel Stories, ARTnews and Galerie Magazine. The most recent article is Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Awakens the City to Spring written for Ocula in March 2024.

Quinze Août , 1964

photography, watercolor, alkyd, neon and collage on canvas

36¼ x 50 x 3 1/8 in

Le Justicier – Tableau de mauvais goût - Martial Raysse

Le Justicier – Tableau de mauvais goût , 1964

Industrial painting, flocking and glycerospray on canvas in artist's frame

146 x 114.2cm. (57½ x 45 in.)

Le Rêve , 1963

plastic elements and white neon

47 x 97 x 14 cm. (18 ½ x 38 ¼ x 5 ½ in.)

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At Auction

Upcoming Lots

Martial RAYSSE (né en 1936

By Martial Raysse

Digard

Six sonnets

By Martial Raysse

FauveParis

Large Martial Raysse Vase / Vessel, 16.25"H

By Martial Raysse

Palm Beach Modern Auctions

Recent Auction Results

Dessin No. 57

By Martial Raysse

Christie's Paris

Portfolio of six framed color silkscreens on cardboard paper

By Martial Raysse

Piasa

Drawing no. 47, spring 1978

By Martial Raysse

+129%

above mid-estimate

Audap & Associates

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Current Exhibitions

The Truthful Eye: The Museum in the Second Degree

MAC VAL

Paris | France

May 13,2023 - Sep 22,2024

Past Exhibitions

French POP

Demisch Danant

New York | USA

Feb 15,2024 - Mar 23,2024

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

Fleiss-Vallois

Upper East Side | New York | USA

Dec 01,2023 - Dec 23,2023

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Articles

Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Awakens the City to Spring

Ocula 21/03/2024

Now in its seventh year, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (PBM+C) (21–24 March 2024) has cemented itself as an indispensable player in the city's art scene for artists and collectors of contemporary art.

Editors’ Picks: Seven Shows to See in December

Art Basel Stories 11/12/2023

Art Basel’s editorial team shares its top tips from Miami to Berlin.

120 Artists Denounce New EU Sales Tax That Will Spike the Price of Art in France

ARTnews 01/03/2023

Around 120 French artists signed a Le Monde op-ed that decries a new European Union tax directive that threatens to dramatically raise the cost of selling art in France.

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Coverage

“ ..Defined by vibrant hues and sharp contrasts, they dispensed with naturalism in deliberate pursuit of what the artist praised as “false relationships” and “bad taste.” Raysse’s most recent portraits, while... ”
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Lévy Gorvy, New York

“ ..Composed in a bold, exuberant palette that he termed “Martialcolor,” these early paintings were based on stereotypical images of the female face gathered from classical paintings and popular media, such... ”
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Lévy Gorvy, New York

“ ..Unlike in the Renaissance, when artists had to accept certain constraints, particularly in the treatment of religious subjects and portraits of rulers, Raysse has worked all his life to keep his independence... ”
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Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation

“ ..Its subjects— two anonymous women whose mouths are frozen in forced smiles—are made nearly unidentifiable through Raysse’s distortion of their images... ”
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Lévy Gorvy, New York

“ ..Together, they express the eccentric wonder of Raysse’s artistic vision, and his desire to strike what he has described as an “equilibrium between the classical and the modern, between that which remains... ”
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Lévy Gorvy, New York