The 150 lots on sale feature works by leading artists and with prestigious pedigrees - a number of them having been formerly collected by André Breton, René Crevel, Paul Eluard, Eugenia Errazuriz, Pierre Matisse, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Yves Saint Laurent and Maurice Thorez. |
Assembled with erudition and passion, this collection is a mix of modern and contemporary art, 20th century design, photographs, antiques, 19th century drawings and Symbolist works. It gathers an impressive list of prominent artists and designers: Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Jean-Michel Frank, Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Eileen Gray, Hector Guimard, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Joseph Hoffman, Donald Judd, Paul Klee, Archibald Knox, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Alexandre Noll, Armand-Albert Rateau, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Yves Tanguy. |