Raphaël Maket, expert in modern paintings - 1850 to today

Raphaël Maket, your expert in modern painting

Raphaël Maket's expertise in the modern schools enables him to recognize 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, he focuses on post-impressionism, the École de Paris and the European avant-gardes, continuing to recognize and put into perspective major artists and figures still on the bangs of the major academic bodies of work.

Raphaël Maket's research resonates with the corpus of works by painters such as Émile Othon Friesz, Charles Dufresne, Francis Gruber and Marcel Gromaire, whose interplay of materials and graphic choices call for careful deciphering.

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

The analysis of chromatic variations and key modulations guides his expert appraisals, based on the comparison of works and archival sources.

At Maket, our expertise is not limited to authentication: we also consider how a work fits into a network of influences, a production context and a distribution logic.

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

Examples of works representing each trend:

- 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), Nuit étoilée by Vincent van Gogh (1889, MoMA, New York), Paul Gauguin's The Vision after the Sermon (1888, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh).

- Fauvism: La Danse by Henri Matisse (1910, Hermitage Museum, Saint 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: Georges Braque's Man with a Guitar (1914, MoMA, New York), Pablo Picasso's Violins and Grapes (1912, MoMA, New York).

- Futurism: Giacomo Balla's Dynamisme d'un chien en laisse (1912, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo), Umberto Boccioni's Formes uniques de continuité dans l'espace (1913, MoMA, New York), Gino Severini's Train en marche (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: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí (1931, MoMA, New York), The Empire of Lights by René Magritte (1954, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice), Leonora Carrington's Castle in the Pyrenees (1959, Tate Modern, London).

- Abstract Expressionism: 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).

With this approach, Raphaël Maket is helping to restore the value of artists who have sometimes been overlooked by historiography, while consolidating the attributions and estimates of major works of modernism.

His work, which focuses on the examination of stylistic singularities and pictorial materiality, is rooted in a desire for scientific rigor and the transmission of knowledge about 20th-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, detailed appraisal.

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