YVES SAINT LAURENT AND PIERRE BERGE ART AUCTION
2009-01-19For fifty years Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge actively collected art, amassing some 700 works over the period with an estimated value in excess of £300million. Included is this extraordinary ‘Sale of the Century’ collection are paintings by Picasso, Goya and Mondrian. Housed in the pairs Paris’ apartment, the collection has been kept relatively private until now. Christies will be auctioning the estate at Le Grand Palais, one of the grandest public exhibition halls in Paris on February 23rd, 24th and 25th.
