“The collection I know best and which is difficult for me to talk about is obviously mine. It is elusive ”,
wrote the late Pierre Le-Tan, in his book
Some collectors
, published in 2013, by Flammarion.
I have owned, I can tell, thousands of items.
Even if today most of them are just memories, I continue to seek, to find, to acquire.
Acquisition being, for some mysterious reason, the most important act, like that of the player throwing a dice.
The idea of speculation has never crossed my mind, nor that of “decoration”.
Collecting is both essential and completely useless to me, ”
he continues.
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Over the years, without ever worrying about fashions, this rare object hunter has accumulated hundreds of finds in his apartment on the Place du Palais-Bourbon, in Paris.
Some 400 pieces are for sale on March 16, for the most important and, for the others, online from March 9 to 17, at an estimate of around 1 to 1.5 million euros.
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