A few months after the death of
Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Bergé sells artworks acquired
with fashion, including Matisse and Picasso. One can be the
auction of the century.
More than 700 objects -
paintings, sculptures, furniture, silver, etc.. - Will be offered by
Christie's, in association with the house Pierre Bergé
& associates, from 23 to 25 February 2009 at the Grand Palais
in Paris. Result of 50 years of complicity between two
aesthetes, this collection is, according to experts, one of the most
extraordinary ever put on the market. There is a Picasso of 1914 (
"Musical instruments on a pedestal," estimated at between 30 and 40
million euros) and several Matisse (including "The cuckoo, blue and
pink carpet", estimated between 15 and 20 million). In front of this
work by 1911, heralds the period of Orientalist painter, which sat a
Yves Saint Laurent on board thoughtful presentation of the sale.
Are also offered paintings by Edgar Degas and
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, a wooden sculpture by Constantin
Brancusi, two very rare animal heads bronze Chinese eighteenth century,
a Roman male torso of the first century or a bar YSL "imagined by the
French artist François-Xavier Lalanne. Proceeds
from the sale, estimated between 200 and 300 million euros will go to
the foundation that Pierre Bergé wants to help create
scientific research, particularly against AIDS. "If I am proud of
something in this collection is the requirement that has always been
made by Yves Saint Laurent and me in the purchase of these objects," he
stressed at a press conference Paris headquarters of Christie's.
