Yves Saint Laurent Pierre Bergé - Christie's

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SALE: LE GRAND PALAIS, PARIS, TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2009, 3 PM ENQUIRIES: ANTHONY PHILLIPS, + 44 (0)20 7389 2663, APHILLIPS@CHRISTIES.COM MARINE DE CÉNIVAL, + 33 (0)1 40 76 86 24, MDECENIVAL@CHRISTIES.COM 157
european furniture and works of art The collection of European Decorative Arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries illustrates the eclectic and discerning eye of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé who recognised superb craftsmanship wherever they found it, from the Nuremberg clockmakers to French and Italian cabinet-makers and Gobelins weavers. The chasing of an automaton lion, the intricate clockwork of a timepiece, the cabinetmaking of a centre table, all display the ingenious inventions of man’s hand. The geographical origins of these works of art also indicate the collectors’ open-mindedness: pieces emanate from the château de Châteauneuf sur Cher, the Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi (in Genoa) or the Schloss Karlsruhe. But these prestigious antecedents were not an essential issue for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. What did matter to them was originality and perfection of design. These criteria are illustrated by the eye-catching Louis XIV tapestry Les Anciennes Indes which hung in the dining room. It is easy to understand why Louis XIV was so dazzled by the cartoons for this set of tapestries, realised by the painters A. Eckhout and F. Post from sketches made during their trip to Brazil between 1637 and 1644. In the Kunstkammer brought together by Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, a clock is especially eye-catching. Realised by Michael Kraz, an early 17th-century clockmaker from Augsburg, it shows a rampant lion automaton, illustrating the meeting of the technical and the aesthetic aspects of a work of art. The objets d’art assembled by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, such as a 15thcentury Flemish tapestry, a 17th-century French mirror, 18th-century Italian chairs or a 19th-century English stool do not at first glance have anything in common; consider the wide profusion of shapes and materials; patinated walnut, pewter-inlaid ebony, carved rock crystal, finely chased ormolu, carved porphyry; but on second glance, these works of art all have a soul, and all reveal the shrewd eye of their collectors. 158 – Simon de Monicault Furniture Department, Paris
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CHRISTIE’S magazine COLLECTION Yv
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contents 4 a legendary collection F
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a legendary collection There is no
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In 1992, Pierre Bergé moved to his
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10 Edouard Manet The model in the p
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12 Edouard Vuillard A caricaturist
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Edvard Munch The landscape and shor
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Juan Gris Manifest here are Gris’
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HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) Les couco
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26 Fernand Léger La tasse de thé,
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FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955) Composit
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32 Piet Mondrian Mondrian could not
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PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944) Compositi
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SALE: LE GRAND PALAIS, PARIS, MONDA
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Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berg
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Photograph by Daniel Bernard There
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44 Jacques Doucet In the late 1920s
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cabinet, and his eventual instructi
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60 Armand-Albert Rateau A modern li
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The strength of Yves Saint Laurent
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94 old master paintings & drawings
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98 Portrait of a man holding a book
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