About du lac fine art

Art catalyzes meetings.

Arrived in Paris in the 1970s, Raphaël Roux dit Buisson first experiences it with African art that will launch his career as an art consultant.

With the right knowledge of the materials used, he discovers that he has a very special sense for the intelligence of the shapes. An approach that brings back the artistic importance of those sculptures, their influence in the modern revolutions of the occidental art.

Following that logic, his activity will naturally grow towards avant-garde painting, from the post neo-classical era until our 1960s contemporaries, for which he is today a recognized expert.

First based in an office near the Hôtel Drouot in Paris, where he met with clients and amateurs, he opened the Galerie Thomire in 1990 at the Louvre des Antiquaires (75001, Paris), gallery specialized in the XIX and XX centuries paintings. Raphaël Roux dit Buisson advised collectors for 25 years at the gallery, and still does today, using the lighter structure that Du LAC Fine Art brings.
Thanks to his competencies and relations, he promotes their collections, loaning artworks to international exhibitions and selling them to institutions or other collectors.

Within the scope of his gallery, a special meeting occured, guiding his path for the following years. He discovered Jacqueline Marval (1866-1932), whose recognition became his life project ; he started gathering her works, aiming to protect and illustrate her life and work, to give her back her historical importance.

Within the ambitions of Fauvism, Jacqueline Marval embodies the strength of a woman artist asserting herself in a deeply misogynistic art world. Embedded in the Parisian avant-garde, she was in close artistic (and friendly) dialogue with Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Jules Flandrin, forging her own bold and modern pictorial language at the heart of early twentieth-century painting.

Her archives reveal intense creative exchanges, and leading voices of her time such as Guillaume Apollinaire and Andry-Farcy recognized the singularity of her work. Yet while her career could be described as a leading trajectory within French modern painting, history — or rather, those who wrote it — chose to marginalize her.

Raphaël’s daughter Camille Roux dit Buisson joined him in 2018, to advise collectors from all around the globe, as well as working on bringing Jacqueline Marval back to global history via communication, marketing and loans.

While from 2020 to 2026, their work have been solely focused on Jacqueline Marval, the father-daughter duo is shifting their focus to their primary activity in 2026:

Art advising and secondary-market expertise, from modern to contemporary artists.