BIOGRAPHY
In 2018, after more than 25 years of experience in France and abroad, Hervé de La Verrie set up in Paris his own company Hervé de La Verrie Art Conseil : expertise, private sale treaties and advisory.
Hervé de La Verrie is a highly respected independent advisor with a privileged knowledge of the market.
After graduating from the Ecole du Louvre, where he acquired a generalist training in Art, Hervé worked at the Galerie Vandermeersch in Paris (1992-1995). Hervé joined in 1995 Christie’s European Ceramics and Glass department in London, also spending time in the Asian department. Appointed in 1997 in Paris for Christie’s prior to the opening of the French market to foreign competitors, he created and headed the European Ceramics and Glass department in Paris covering the 15th to the 19th century period.
Hervé as Director of European Ceramics and Glass department has worked for more than 20 years for Christie’s, developing the European market and creating a network of collectors and institutions worldwide. He holds a strong track record at auction with a world record price at auction, never exceeded, for two 18th century Meissen Porcelain Herons from Augustus the Strong Japanese Palace’s collections in Dresden; in 2001 the Charles-Otto Zieseniss collection of Sèvres porcelain, which catalogue is still considered a reference catalogue, was the inaugural Christie’s sale in France.
Hervé also led important private sales to French institutions such as an 18th century Sèvres porcelain garniture of three vases with goat’s heads sold to the Musée national de Céramique de Sèvres in 2004 and a collection of 18th century Niderviller porcelain groups and figures to the Musée du Pays de Sarrebourg in 2013.
Appointed in 2011 Director of Christie’s representatives, he was in charge of developping Christie’s presence in France and actively increased and structured Christie’s network (Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Strasbourg, Nantes); he also secured sponsorship and partnership operations to develop Christie’s and local representatives’ image.
Hervé de La Verrie is the author of numerous publications, articles and catalogue notes.
SERVICES
Hervé de La Verrie’s experience and knowledge in Europe and internationally in the field of decorative arts, furniture, paintings and silver serves collectors, families and institutions, selling and buying in the best conditions.
Hervé can provide :
- for private or families, advice and inventories when in the process of inheritance, gifts or sales and also for acquisitions.
- for institutions, advice and inventories for sales and/or for acquisitions.
- coordination of global valuations, structuring strategies for sale and handling negotiations on behalf of a family or a collector when they need to sell works of art or an entire collection.
He also collaborates with various auction houses and independent specialists.
Drawing on his considerable experience accrued over the course of many years in Paris and abroad, Hervé is in the strongest possible position to help clients navigate the complexities of the market. He has an acute understanding of the global market and its many nuances, and has built and maintained trusting long-term relationships with collectors and Institutions worldwide.
ReFeRENCES
Expert in European ceramics and glass covering the 15th to 19th century and Chinese export porcelain for auctions houses in Paris including:
- Thierry de Maigret
- Coutau-Bégarie & Associés
- Christie’s (European ceramics from the 15th to the 19th century).
Membership
- Syndicat Français des Experts Professionnels en Œuvres d’Art (SFEP)
- Académie de Moustiers
- French Porcelain Society
- Société des Amis de Versailles
- Société des Amis du Louvre
- Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique, Sèvres
- The Freunde der Dresdner Porzellansammlung
ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Exhibitions
Co-curator : Les grands services de Sèvres : Le service « iconographique antique » du cardinal Fesch, Musée national de la céramique, Sèvres, 3 October 2007-14 January 2008.
Publications
Le service « iconographique antique » du cardinal Fesch, exhibition catalogue, 2008.
Faïencerie de Niderviller depuis 1735 – Mémoire d’une collection éphémère au château de Haroué, exhibition’s portfolio, Niderviller, 2007, co-author with Jean-Louis Janin-Daviet.
Articles
« Le répertoire gréco-romain au service de l’Empire, le service ‘iconographique antique’ du cardinal Fesch », Les tables du pouvoir, une histoire des repas de prestige, Louvre-Lens Museum, Paris, 2021, pp.370-377.
« Porcelaine et Majesté », Les tables du pouvoir, une histoire des repas de prestige, Louvre-Lens Museum, Paris, 2021, pp.325-333, co-author with Christine Germain Donnat.
« L’amitié comme justification d’une exception aux registres », Revue « Sèvres » de la Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique, Vottem, 2021, pp.50-57.
« A shared passion », The T & T collection – Porcelain pugs. A passion., Brussels, 2019, pp.15-17.
« Des pendules en porcelaine – De Sèvres à Paris, marchands-merciers et horlogers », Les vases de Sèvres XVIIIe-XXIe siècles, Dijon, 2014, pp.76-83.
« Un encrier daté et signé en faïence de Bergerac, fabrique Babut », L’Estampille – L’Objet d’art, Dijon, 2007, n.428, pp.21-22.
Various private collection catalogues
- Nadine Ortiz-Patiño (Thierry de Maigret, 2018)
- Alberto Pinto (Christie’s Paris, 2017)
- Boniface de Castellane et Anna Gould (Christie’s Paris, 2017)
- Palais Abbatial de Royaumont (Christie’s Paris, 2011)
- Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé (Christie’s Paris, 2009)
- Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord (Christie’s Paris, 2005)
- Madame Bernheim (Christie’s Paris, 2004)
- Baron Hottinguer (Christie’s Paris, 2003)
- Baron Fould-Springer et Cécile de Rothschild (Christie’s Paris, 2003)
- Démétrius Zafiropulo (Christie’s Paris, 2003)
- Collection d’un Amateur (Christie’s Paris, 2003)
- Meunier-Barandiaran (Christie’s Monaco, 2001)
- Charles-Otto Zieseniss (Christie’s Paris, 2001)
- Karl Lagerfeld (Christie’s Monaco, 2001)
- Castillo de Bendinat, Majorque (Christie’s Madrid, 1999),
- Kasteel van Rumbeke, Belgium (Christie’s London, 1997)
Lectures
Les Amis de l’Hôtel de Groesbeeck-de Croix à Namur : La céramique comme complément complément esthétique de la collection ou collection de céramiques ? (Namur, 2020).
Ecole du Louvre : Parcours « Marché de l’Art » (Paris, 2018).
Communauté de communes du territoire de Lunéville à Baccarat : Les arts du feu en Lorraine sous Stanislas Leszczynski (Lunéville, 2016).
Christie’s : La collection Jules et Thérèse Desurmont (Brussels, 2015).
Vieilles Maisons Françaises : Les services royaux en porcelaine de Sèvres (Château de Puyguilhem, 2008).
Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique, Sèvres : Le cabinet imaginaire de céramiques de James Christie (Sèvres, 2006).
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