Renner

Alain RennerAuctioneer since 1974, managing director of Sotheby’s Monaco until 1998, Vice-Chairman of Sotheby’s France, furniture expert since 1982. Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, he has published several books and articles on contemporary artists and gives very regular lectures.

Remise

Jac Remise, journalist, filmmaker, collector of antique toys, is the author of a large number of books and films dedicated to the world of toys.
His book The Golden Age of Toys, published in 1967, marked the beginning of a general craze for this subject.

Racine

Born in 1935, near Rue, in Marquenterre. Normal School in Amiens, between 1951 and 1955. French teacher in college for 25 years, in Poix-de-Picardie.
In 1980, she left Poix and her job to lead painting and art workshops in Amiens, for children and teenagers. Chantal Valentin, curator of the Departmental Library of the Somme, offers her to ensure the exhibitions of the Library, their designs, their achievements and their catalogs. She worked with great pleasure until 2007. Vertebral fractures forced her to reduce working life. It is then that she undertakes writing and illustration work on mythological themes that have been dear to her heart for a long time.

Retel

Jean-Stanislas RetelJean-Stanislas Retel, former director of the Reader’s Digest France Corporate Foundation, passionate about art and history, is the author of publications encouraging and supporting contemporary artists and pursues a consulting activity with photographers and young writers.