Alain Delon to auction part of art collection
Published October 12th, 2007
Forty paintings belonging to celebrated French actor Alain Delon were to hit the auction blocks on Monday, the Cornette de Saint Cyr auction house said.
Experts expected the paintings, most of them abstract works dating from the 1950’s, to fetch between €4.6 million and €6.2 million (US$6.5 million and US$8.8 million).
The auction was expected to include works by French painters Nicolas de Stael, noted for his heavily textured abstract landscapes, and Pierre Soulages, who favored the color black.
Stael’s abstract “Still Life with a Saucepan,” which features an unidentifiable pitcher and glasses as well as the saucepan, was expected to fetch between €500,000 and €700,000 (US$711,000 and US$995,000).
A painting by Soulages featuring black trees is estimated at between €300,000 and €400,000 (US$427,000 and US$569,000).
Delon acquired many of the paintings at an auction in the 1980’s.
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