If there is something for all budgets, the treasures put up for auction also give in the most diverse registers: toilets, drawings, paintings, letters and even some treasures of eroticism.
Children in the Square,
by Serge Gainsbourg
Among the paintings that Serge Gainsbourg would have painted between 1950 and 1953 before launching into the song, only five remain.
“Collector's items, because he burned all the others.
His sister had one, Jane Birkin has had a small format since 1969 and a third was at Juliette Gréco's, to whom Gainsbourg offered it in July 1959. This oil on canvas signed “Ginsburg” represents him playing with his sister in the park in a sandy alley.
This is the first Gainsbourg painting to go on sale, ”
says Fabien Lecoeuvre.
Lot 303, from 30,000 to 50,000 euros.
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La Petite Gréco with a cat,
by Foujita
This drawing is dated June 25, 1953, the wedding day of Juliette Gréco with Philippe Lemaire.
It is a gift that Foujita brings to the bride on the day of the ceremony
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