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ARTinvestment.RU   21 февраля 2009

Very soon, the Paris Grand Palais excellent works from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berger pass to new owners

For the six months media attention riveted on the upcoming bidding works from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent (Yves Saint Laurent) and Pierre Berger (Pierre Berge), who has repeatedly called «bid century». Representatives of the art community with interest and looking forward to this auction, because it can be to buy the work of exceptional quality with excellent provenans.

The organizer of the prestigious auction the current owner of the collection of Pierre Berger chose the auction house Christie's.

Auction marathon last three days - from 23 to 25 February. Customers will be offered items from Asian countries, works of ancient art, sculptures and numerous works of gold and silver, enamel-coated things XVI century paintings of XIX century, the masterpieces of old masters in the style of Al deco and modern creations.

You can purchase works of authors whose work is rarely appear in public tenders, such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Franz Hals, Jacques-Louis David and Theodore Zheriko. For example, put up for auction five paintings Theodore Zheriko, including a very interesting double portrait of Alfred and Elizabeth de Dro. For a Christie's expects to gain from 4 to 6 million euro, and it is likely that it will exceed the previous record Zheriko. It was established in 1989, when at the tender in Monaco «Portrait of Laura Bro» went under the hammer for an amount that is converted to the euro was 4.9 million.

In the category of «art modernism» presented a series of famous names: Alberto Giacometti, Juan GRIS, Edouard Vyuyyar, Paul Klee, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon, Georges Sulfur, Edouard Manet , Gustav Klimt and many others.

In the list of top lots are very rare wooden sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, entitled «Portrait of Madame LR». Before getting to the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berger, this statue was in the collection of Fernand Leger, which is a clear advantage in favor of its acquisition. Perhaps this rarity, which is estimated to cost 15-20 million euros, will be good competition «Birds in space» (27,5 million dollars, Christie's, May 2005), which is the most expensive work of the author.

Art of Fernand Leger submitted bids in six pieces, the largest of which - written in 1921, modern canvas «A cup of tea». If there is a buyer ready to pay 15 million euros, it may enter the four most expensive of the artist.

In recent years, Piet Mondrian paintings on display for sale very rarely, but in the upcoming auction, you can purchase entire five works, among which three «neoplastic» songs, all of which are quite large. This is especially pleased because, since 2004, when Sotheby's in New York almost went under the hammer meter painting «New York, boogie-woogie», at auctions does not hold any of the Mondrian, larger than 50 x 50 centimeters.

One of the most expensive lots, of course, is the excellent work of Pablo Picasso kubisticheskaya «Musical instruments on the table», estimeyt which is 25-30 million euros.

The place of the auction was elected the Grand Palais in Paris. A monumental glass dome of the palace more than 150 people working on the creation of a new internal image.

Construction of the Grand Palais was launched in 1897 and was timed to the opening of the World Exposition Universelle in 1900. The outstanding building length 250 meters and a width of 45 meters is the most appropriate place for such a unique art collection.

In the halls of the French Grand Palais will recreate the unique atmosphere of the two flats, which hold more than 700 works of art - paintings, sculptures, ceramics, furniture - is one of the most outstanding collections. Has been a tremendous preparatory work, timed to coincide with the «auction Century», in the transformation of a monument to French architecture in the storage of works of art that all of your kind of reminded of the unique taste and deep insights of two passionate collectors - Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berger.

Sources: christies.com , artprice.com , artinvestment.ru