# Patrick BAILLY-MAITRE-GRAND (b. 1945). "Les Herbes", 2002. Photographic triptych signed, dated and numbered EA I to III/III on the back (stains on one of the three paintings). Each: Height. : 102 cm - Width : 80 cm Provenance: - purchased in 2014 directly from the artist, Strasbourg ; - private collection, Paris. Note: trained as a scientist, Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand began began his photographic career in 1980, working with complex such as the daguerreotype. His compositions reveal simplified worlds akin to certain Japanese haikus: short poems poems inviting contemplative meditation. Our triptych invites the viewer to contemplate these grasses set in motion by the wind: each guided in random directions directions, all in harmony. His work, widely referenced in French and international public collections, and has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Pompidou in Paris, MoMA in New York, the Victoria Museum in Melbourne and the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg, which Strasbourg, which devoted a retrospective to her in 2014 ("Colles et chimères"). His photographic work is currently represented by several galleries in France and abroad: Galerie Baudoin Lebon in Paris, Galerie Lucien Schweitzer in Luxembourg, Galerie Tagomago in Galerie Michel Soskine in Madrid and New York. All bids will be inclusive of VAT. VAT at 5.5% recoverable on the auction price and costs for taxable buyers and in the case of exports outside the EC.