Collection of works of art owned by the Japanese designer Kenzo Takada will be offered for auction

Apparently, Inspired success auction works from the collection of the famous couturier Yves Saint-Laurent (Yves Saint-Laurent) and his partner Pierre Berger (Pierre Berge), which had almost half a billion dollars , and the subsequent auction items from the villa of Gianni Versace (Gianni Versace) at the Lake Como, which many times exceeded the expectations of the organizers and made 7.4 million pounds , Japanese designer Takada Kenzo (Kenzo Takada) announced that sells about 1 200 pieces of art from their collections.

Tenders 16 and 17 June in Paris will hold the auction house Aguttes, which expects to gain on them 1.5 million euros. «(Trades Kenzo. - Ed .) Can not be compared with sales of Saint Laurent and Berger - told representatives of Aguttes. - Then sold to the classical European works. A Kenzo bought things he liked in different countries, and most of them are not in the West ».

Those interested can purchase rare African masks, the works of Australian Aboriginals, Chinese wooden statuettes, the age of almost two thousand years, figures of Buddha from the ancient kingdom of Gandhara and Japanese lacquer objects of the XVI century in the style of «negoro». «Among them there are works of museum-level», - reported in Aguttes.

Kenzo expressed regret that he will have to sell these things. But he explained that had to do it, because moving from his Paris mansion to an apartment in the city center. «I am disappointed that I need to part with these items, but now I have decided to start with a new sheet and sell all», - he said.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Sources: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru