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THE MAGAZINE UPCOMING AUCTIONS
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26 and 27 March
Kimiyo Foujita estate: act IV
We can really call this the Kimiyo Foujita saga, now…
The Paris auction house Cornette de Saint Cyr continues
with the unending estate of the Franco-Japanese
painter's widow, who died in 2009. The first three
sections (2012 and 2011) had already totalled €9,130,678.
During the next three sales, taking place in the Hôtel de
Rothschild on 26 and 27 March, nearly 1,500 lots will go
under the hammer. They include numerous images of
young girls (like this ink and watercolour girl with a kitten:
€12,000/150,000), religious subjects (as we remember,
Foujita converted to Catholicism at the end of his life)
and various genre scenes and portraits.
28 March
A Renoir from the Sacha Guitry collection
This "Femme nue couchée" by Auguste Renoir belongs to the Sacha Guitry collection, to be sold on 28 March in
the lounges of the Hôtel de Rothschild in Paris, during the "Florilèges" sales of the Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr
auction house. The celebrated French actor and dramatist bought the painting at Drouot on 22 March 1922 at the
sale of another French writer and dramatist, Alfred Savoir, who was selling a small but remarkable collection
of Impressionist works containing no fewer than three Monets. Sacha Guitry spent the tidy sum of FF7,300:
the equivalent of €7,892 today. Listed in the artist's catalogue raisonné, this small painting dates from around 1892,
the year when Renoir painted the
famous "Jeunes filles au piano" now
in the Musée d'Orsay – the French
State's first purchase of a work by the
master. On a more modest scale, but
nonetheless imbued with the artist's
characteristic chromatic lyricism, this
deliciously curvaceous lady will be
on offer for around €80,000/100,000.
Her pedigree should do the rest...
S. P.-D.
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