Bidding promise to bring a record 60 million euros

29-31 March next year the house Christie's will auction the works of famous designers of the twentieth century. Auction, given the record estimate: 60 million euros. This is even more than the revenue from the "designer" part sale of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge.

venue for trading elected Palais de Tokyo in Paris. With a hammer start up 500 items, all of whom belong to the collector of Negro Laurent (Laurent Negro), son of the founder of recruitment company Bis SA. Negro with a 1990 gathering of designers, preferring to Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modernism. Treasures of the Negro on display in a medieval castle Gourdon (Provence), which is owned by a collector.

above-mentioned auction meeting Saint Laurent and Berge nothing less than change the whole design of objects: more than twice exceeding the total upper estimate (28.3 million euros), auction ended at 59.2 million euros, and for the top lot - "Armchair with dragons" Eileen Gray (Eileen Gray), estimated at 2-3 million euros, the new owner gave 21.9 million euros.

In March Laurent Negro exhibits 15 works of Gray, two of which are estimated at 1.5 million euros (a screen of black lacquer coated with "bricks" and the plain chair Transat ).

highest estimate - 3.5 million euros - was a unique gaming table, made in 1930 by Jean Dunant (Jean Dunand) for couturier Madeleine Vonne (Madeleine Vionnet). Another lot, desk Tardieu authorship Emile-Jacques Ryulmanna (Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann), is capable, according to experts, to bring up to three million.

material was prepared by Julia Maksimova AI

Sources : bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru