One morning in 1997, the phone rang at Carole Amiel's.
At the end of the line, the sculptor Caesar's companion is angry:
"How can you sell Montand's souvenirs including Caesar's rag compression?"
The widow of Montand falls from the clouds:
“I rushed to Saint-Germain-en-Laye where the sale took place.
There were several paintings that came from Autheuil and Place Dauphine and plates on which Picasso had drawn goats.
I was only able to buy an earthenware tray. ”
Jean-Louis Livi, Montand's nephew, barely saves chairs from Autheuil.
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Is Yves Montand disappearing from our collective memory?
The Norman property of Montand-Signoret has just been sold by their grandchildren Benjamin Castaldi and Clémentine Vaudaux.
This auction is the first organized by Catherine Allégret and her children.
In June 2017, the trio parted with more than 300 objects in Drouot.
Montand's Pleyel piano, a handwritten poem by Prévert, the correspondence with Kennedy, the screenplay by
César and Rosalie
,
the screenplay
by
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