THE WINNERS OF 2022 (6/6) – Museums made more than 100 auction purchases this year. A record.
They made headlines in their field. Back to these figures or phenomena of the year.
France remains an inexhaustible breadbasket for both collectors and museums. Pre-emptions reach a record in 2022. There are no less than thirty at Drouot, including the portrait of the Duke of Choiseul, influential minister of Louis XV, painted by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803). It was won by the Palace of Versailles at 243,200 euros, during the sale, on December 13, of the collections of Anne-Aymone and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, at Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés.
Christie’s has a total of 27 (notably the Kandinsky library for the avant-garde books of Paul Destribats). Sotheby’s, a dozen, including the one at 1.3 million euros for a pair of Louis XIV pedestals by André-Charles Boulle acquired by Versailles. And Artcurial, more than forty: from the Limoges Museum of Fine Arts to Chantilly, via the Louvre or Versailles.
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