International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show

 Bowers of white orchids...

 Priceless.

 Very priceless indeed Cartier watches at The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show yesterday at the 67th Street Armory.

Each dealer setup his area like a separate room you could practically move into on the spot.

Very elegant indeed.

I was quite smitten with this half-finished Cezanne watercolor from art dealer Thomas Colville.

And drooling over these Delacroix Moroccan sketches too.

Not so enticing this ceramic plate of bacon and eggs from Picasso.

Though very inticing Francois Payard's macarons in the refreshment area at the show.
 

Do you write or draw? You definitely need this fabulous desk from UK dealer Apter-Fredricks of London.

And of course the essential Staffordshire cat from Brian Houghton Galleries to sit atop your papers and drawings.

Do you long to work for an international art dealer?

Then start working on your posture ASAP.

I noticed sales people from the various galleries had perfect posture. I wonder if they use Backjoy?
 

As I was leaving the show (which continues until 25th October Thursday) I spotted high fashion designer Carolina Herrerra, whose posture is pretty perfect don't you think?

My new little Canon S100 did a pretty good job of capturing her.

A few blocks away a little dog who's posture could use some improvement but I loved his 'side-car' gizmo
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These lion-cut poodle's posture is positively regal.

New York fish watch their posture when they're swimming in Barney's windows on Madison avenue.
As objet d'art go, New York Sabrett hot dog stand are priceless forever don't you think?



 

EW Brocante - 21, rue Saint-Paul 75004

 Ever walk into a shop

 And say to yourself

 'I'm home'.

 That's how I felt when I wandered into EW because a certain well-known shop down the street was closed comme d'habitude. And boy was I glad.

EW - 21, rue St-Paul 'Le Marais' 75004

 EW (Eduardo) on the phone talking away in Portuguese, looked up and said 'Bonjour'.  I responded, 'Tudo bom?'

He smiled and let me wander and poke around to my heart's content.

 Eduardo came to Paris 20 years ago to study architecture from Brazil. He opened his tiny closet-sized shop 12 years ago.

 He told me,

'Whenever I get fed up with Paris, I just look out the window and I'm happy again'.

 I was enthralled with the old French school goodies Eduardo has just like at Le Bonbon au Palais - several adorable watercolor boxes called out to me.

 The vintage French china was hard to ignore.

 But this old French how-to-draw brochure had my name on it.

 Irresistible.

 Doesn't it remind you of Anna Corba's Doodling in French?

 If you walk into a Parisian patisserie and don't know how to say,

'Please wrap my macarons as a cadeau/gift'

Now you can draw it for the vendeuse.

 Anna shows you how to draw a pitcher too. In a restaurant you can 'ask' for a carafe d'eau/Paris tap by simply sketching it on a napkin, instead of spending $$ for a bottle of water.

 It's a perfect gift for the French-obsessed. Well I'm off to New York today. Do stop in at EW when you're wandering in Le Marais for an enchanting return to childhood.

Ian Sidaway R.I.

Ian Sidaway's huge dirty paint box creates luminous watercolors.

I first met British watercolor artist Sidaway through a series of small food books by John Midgley - love at first sight. Later I found Ian's landscape watercolor book... We met enfin the flesh at a watercolor workshop in Poppi, Tuscany. Yesterday I visited his Richmond studio. Ian's a master of layering, color, values. He paints full across the page back to back...

Ian plots out his paintings in thumbnail sketches first.

Ian's done at least 90 painting books on all mediums.

Piles of watercolors fill his workshed.

Breath-taking no?

The garden looks to have escaped from his paintings...

An artists dream house.Surrounded by wonderful English antique trash. 

BONJOUR SID!