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Histoire de notre collection de tableaux

dialogue between Laure Adler and Pierre Bergé

The clamor has hardly subsided on the Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Bergé sale, and people continue to wonder how does one build a collection worth 374 million euros? How does one choose the periods, the artists, the objects of art, how does one specialize-or not? The dialogue between Laure Adler and Pierre Bergé is a sort of excursion through the genesis of this collection. The great collector is a straight shooter who loves to tell anecdotes, so we are easily captivated by his story: whether it is the importance of having known the Noailles, how Yves Saint Laurent and Bergé entered for the first time the Kugel shop(famous antique dealers), how they discovered their first Brancusi in a basement, their love for Matisse, Chirico, Géricault, etc. In reading we learn that the bookshop owner in La Rochelle had refused to sell to the young 13-year old Bergé a book on Renoir because it was full of naked women … Some advice for collectors who are in search of excellence? It could be, «Beware of taste».

• Histoire de notre collection de tableaux, (The history of our collection of paintings)

Histoire de notre collection de tableaux - dialogue between Laure Adler and Pierre Bergé


Review published in the newsletter #124 - from 12 March 2009 to 18 March 2009

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