Thousands of contemporary art, French royal furniture and rare books amassed by Hubert Guerrand-Hermès will be dispersed through four auctions in December.
Where would you find at once a chair from Marie-Antoinette’s boudoir, one of Pierre Soulages’ paintings, furniture by Le Corbusier and a pair of topiary boars by François-Xavier Lalanne?Some 1,000 lots from his collection will be going under the hammer at Sotheby’s in a series of four physical and online auctions mid-December.
In addition to French royal furniture that includes a carved and gilded Louis XVI chair commissioned for Marie-Antoinette’s personal apartments at the Chateau de Versailles and a dresser commissioned by royal mistress Marquise de Pompadour, the late collector also snatched up works by Pablo Picasso, Juan Miró and contemporary artists such as Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor.
Not only was she a patron of the arts herself and an enthusiastic collector, but she was also the ancestor of Guerrand-Hermès’ wife Rosalinda Álvares Pereira de Melo, herself a member of the Portuguese nobility.
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