Yesterday sent a catalog of this collection, it will be implemented by Christie at three auctions, it is very much there and just different. As I understand it, basically a collection of this gathering, Pierre Berge, the man far better known in the art world than his partner, but the people who bought something from this collection, of course, will say: "This is from the Saint-Laurent!" .

He left for 193tys! Already hanged results - all very well sold. Not all over, but already 206 million.

Painting by Henri Matisse from the collection of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent on Monday was sold at Christie's auction in Paris for the record for the artist's € 32 million ($ 40.7 million).
         Such an amount of fan art laid out for a picture of Matisse's "Primrose" (Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose, 1911), whose preliminary assessment amounted to € 12-18 million.
       This amount was a record for the work of Matisse, and almost two times higher than the preliminary estimate of 18 million euros
Also, new records set the value of Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi and Marcel Dyushama. Brancusi Sculpture "Madame LR", created between 1914 and 1917 year, went under the hammer for 26 million euros. The previous record was set in 2005, while for sculpture Brancusi paid 27,45 million dollars.

Ready-Made Dyushama "Beautiful Breath" (Belle haleine: eau de voilette, 1921) went for 7.9 million euros. Last record stood at 1.8 million dollars and was raised in 2002.
Abstract composition Mondrian in 1922 was sold for 19.2 million euros (estimate of 10 million euros).
At the same time, painting by Pablo Picasso's "Musical instruments on the table" (Instruments de musique sur un table, 1914), which was to be the most expensive lot, could not find a worthy buyer. Once during the bidding price for a painting fell below the provisional estimates of 25 million euros, the painting was withdrawn from auction.

Total revenue during the first day of trading amounted to 206 million euros. Thus, a collection of Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge has become the most expensive private collection ever sold at auction.

VAUUUU!! : eek:: eek:: eek:

See the results, some fiction! higher estimate:. Amazed two sales Mondrian (both of earlier, written by him in 25 years). One is a sketch, in pencil, the second the work itself, written by oil. So, oil, and which are bigger lasted for 313 thousand euros, and a sketch of estimate 50-70 thousand euros caught up .... 385 THOUSAND !!!!!

Also wonder why they have someone so needed? Creative value Mondrian his early figurative painting does not illustrate. Tygda why? Just to show someone that young to Mondrian period pioneering abstraction practiced in realistic landscapes?

Rat and rabbit for tomorrow was postponed. China wants them back.

Chinese non-state fund The National Treasure Funds of China (NTFC), dealing with the repatriation of cultural property, was unable to buy two items from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge, reported Xinhua.
The bronze head of rats and rabbits exhibited at the Paris auction with Christie's estimate of 8-10 million euros each.
Nude Xianfeng (Niu Xianfeng), deputy head of the fund, the agency explained that in the same bronze head NTFC in 2003 paid about a million dollars, so the amount of Christie's turned out to be unfeasible for the fund. Nude Xianfeng appealed to the Chinese public to raise money for the ransom.
The bronze head of rat and rabbit were part of clepsydra, decorated with images of Chinese zodiac signs. Clepsydra was in the Beijing summer palace of Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795), and during the Second Opium War (1860), when the palace was burnt down, figurines of animals have disappeared. Now five of them are stored in Beijing and two still are part of the collections by Saint Laurent and Berge. Location of the remaining five is unknown.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/ar...1&ref=arts

now watching the results of yesterday's auction. Frankly, even the question arises, what could be. In my opinion anyway that was to buy, the main thing was to buy. for any money. whether stone for 2-3 thousand euros, which incidentally as a result went for 46, or chair, which was estimated at 2.3 million euros and gone ... CAUTION! for 21,9 million euros!! if no error on the site)) this has never been ... is it really such a strong influence of the name??

"Favorite chair of the last great couturiers" - in this interpretation a little clearer irrational behavior of buyers? What can you do for glamorous generation where his name is more significant than the names of the authors of works from his collection.