Clément Rosenthal

Clément Rosenthal was born in 1956. The Centre Georges Pompidou's own database gives his birthplace as Neuilly-sur-Seine in the Hauts-de-Seine region just outside Paris, while several commercial galleries describe him more loosely as Paris-born. According to gallery biographies published by Marco Orler International Gallery and Lille Art Up, his father was the conductor Manuel Rosenthal, a pupil of Maurice Ravel, and the family had ties to Maurice Pillard Verneuil, an Art Nouveau decorator and art historian associated with Asian art influences. This family background is corroborated by two gallery sources but has not been verified against an independent biographical or archival record.

Rosenthal studied painting and drawing from 1973 to 1978, attending Parisian art academies and training in a painter's studio, though no specific school or degree is named in the public record. His mature work is described by gallery sources as abstract painting carrying an Asian art influenced sensibility.

He is currently represented by Galerie Boccara, which states that he is "now represented by the Boccara Gallery," following earlier showings with other galleries including Visus Gallery in Knokke, Belgium, and Marco Orler International Gallery, and earlier solo exhibitions at Galerie Melki, Paris, and Webster Fine Art, Paris. The Centre Pompidou's institutional record places his activity in Paris and Verrieres-le-Buisson in the Ile-de-France region; no other public source specifies a current residence. As of 2026, no obituary, death notice, or gallery statement indicates that he has died, and he continues to be presented in the present tense as an active, exhibiting painter, including a listing among the artists of the Buzz'Art Festival's 2026 program.

No exact, attributable quotation from a named critic writing in a major art publication could be located for Rosenthal in this research. What can be documented is institutional interest: acquisitions by the Centre Georges Pompidou and by the FRAC Ile-de-France and FRAC Rhone-Alpes collections, and a steady presence at major commercial art fairs including Art Basel, FIAC, Art Basel Miami Week, the Armory Show, the Palm Beach Art Show, and Intersect Palm Springs. That combination of museum and FRAC acquisition alongside fair-circuit gallery representation is the clearest available signal of his standing, in the absence of a broader critical literature.

Public auction data for Rosenthal is sparse. The highest price documented so far is EUR 78,000 (about USD 106,000 at the time), achieved on 10 June 2014 at Millon, a French auction house. The specific work sold is not identified in the available public record, and this figure comes from the LotSearch auction aggregator rather than a house-confirmed catalogue result. Gallery materials also state that his work has sold at Millon's Brussels saleroom and at Sotheby's in New York and London, and that these sales helped build his international reputation, but none of the available sources give titles, prices, or dates for them. Collectors should treat the EUR 78,000 Millon result as the best documented figure available, not as a fully house-verified auction record.

Rosenthal's public profile combines real institutional recognition with a market that is difficult to verify from public sources. No catalogue raisonne has been identified, and no certificate-of-authenticity program is described anywhere, so buyers should rely on current gallery representation and, where possible, on the institutions that hold his work for provenance guidance. Because only one auction result, the 2014 Millon sale, is documented with a firm date and price, and because sources disagree on basic biographical points such as exact birthplace, collectors should treat any single data point about this artist with caution and confirm details directly with the representing gallery before transacting.