A Miró from a Paris flea market, a Calder from an Alabama yard sale, and a family portrait watching over it all—inside Chez Fifi, the Foulquer brothers’ tribute to their mother.
Annie Armstrong’s column for Caper explores how fine art by Joan Miró and Alexander Calder ended up at Chez Fifi, an Upper East Side restaurant opened by brothers Joshua and David Foulquier in honor of their late mother, Firouzeh ("Fifi"). The collection on the restaurant's second floor features a Miró etching titled La Cantatrice Chauve, which Fifi purchased at a Paris flea market in the late 1980s, displayed alongside a family portrait of their grandmother and a Calder gouache titled Flying Saucers. Josh acquired the Calder at an Alabama yard sale for $500, later discovering through Calder's son that the piece was an authentic original worth approximately $150,000.


By
Annie Armstrong
Artwork 1
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La Cantatrice Chauve by Joan Miró, inside the Upper East Side’s Chez Fifi
Artwork 2
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Flying Saucers by Alexander Calder, 1968
