In May, the London auction will be a collection of the late German multimillionaire and former husband of Brigitte Bardot Gunter Sachs. It is planned to sell 300 works, including Andy Warhol's silk-screen printing

ANDY WARHOL
Brigitte Bardot.
1974 From the collection of Gunter Sachs
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In May, London auction a collection of the late German multimillionaire and ex-husband Gunter Sachs Brigitte Bardot. total at auction May 22-23, will sell 300 works - from the works of pop art to furniture to art deco. lots total estimate of 20 million pounds ($ 31 million ).

Among the most interesting lots of future auction - the work of Andy Warhol. Silk "Flowers" (1964-1965) and a portrait of Brigitte Bardot (1974), performed in the same technique will be offered buyers in London with an estimate of 3-4 million pounds.

Sachs was married three times. charming actress he won, throwing over her house from a helicopter hundreds of red roses. In 1966, Brigitte Bardot was his second wife, though they had been married only three years. Last May, at the age of 78 years, Gunter Sachs has committed suicide in his chalet in Switzerland.

portrait of Bardot, Warhol was commissioned by Sacks, based on photograph of actress, made in 1959 by Richard Avedon. One of 35 original prints bromserebryanyh entered in the catalog of the upcoming May auction with an estimate of 40-60 thousand pounds.

Sachs became friends with Warhol after a meeting in September Tropez in the early 1960s, and in 1972 organized the exhibition of the artist in his gallery in Hamburg. No work on the evening of the opening has not been purchased, and to save a friend from disgrace, Sachs himself got half the work. From the collection of Sachs to bid exposed to one of the last self-portraits Warhol (1986), with disheveled hair (estimate 2-3 million pounds).

Many of the works of pop art Sachs or acquired in late 1960 - early 1970 - x directly from the authors, or ordered them to his mansion in St. Moritz, where the club was created Dracula. His bedroom was decorated in a Swiss house a complete set of furniture from the dummies Allen Jones (Allen Jones) in 1969. chair, table and hanger put up for auction with an estimate of 30-40 thousand pounds for each piece of furniture.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru