Records Claude and François-Xavier Lalannov at the Paris bid and Christie's Sotheby's
Triumphal selling works of the great French designers at auction by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berger had a beneficial effect on their market
magical results tendering works from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent (Yves Saint-Laurent), and Berger, Pierre (Pierre Bergé), organized auction house Christie's in February of this year, a truly vzbodrili market works great French designer François-Xavier Lalanna (François-XavierLalanne, 1927-2008) and his no less great wife Claude Lalann (ClaudeLalanne, r. 1924). At auction 24 February bar YSL work Lalanna went for 2.7 million euros (3.5 million dollars) at estimeyte 200-300 thousand euro. On the same day fifteen mirrors Claude Lalann brought 1.8 million euros (2.4 million dollars), with a preliminary assessment of 0,7-1 million euros. Both the amount was a record for the artist.
Last week, Christie's held in Paris bidding on which were presented to nearly 50 sculptures Lalannov . All works found buyers. The total value of the sculptures were more than 3.4 million euros, which is much higher than the provisional estimate. One of the joint creations of the spouses, brass table in the form of a monkey holding his head in the leaves of water lilies, has 349 thousand euros (488.2 thousand dollars), with estimeyte 10-15 thousand. A figure of an owl called «white lady», performed by Francois-Xavier Lalai, was sold for 409 thousand euros (572 thousand dollars) in the evaluation of 180-250 thousand. She won the third line in the list of the most expensive of his works. Was it possible to imagine a successful sale of the collection to the victory of Saint Laurent?
The second place in the Top-3 of the auction results, François-Xavier Lalanna is a sculpture «Kuznechik», also sold recently. May 27, at Paris auction of Contemporary Art Sotheby's it had 540.7 thousand euro ( 774 thousand dollars), with estimeyte 250-350 thousand euro. This work was performed in duplicate. The second «Kuznechik» is in the collections of the British Queen Elizabeth II. Sculpture she gave none other than the second French president Georges Pompidou (Georges Pompidou).
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