Rare Chanel jewelry given to New York socialite Susan Gutfreund by designer Karl Lagerfeld himself is expected to fetch over $163,000 as part of $7.4M auction of her belongings, five years after her financier husband s death
Christie s 106-piece haul of designer haul of Chanel jewelry will be up for auction from January 14 to 29
The items are being put up for auction by Manhattan socialite Susan, who was friends with Lagerfeld and amassed many pieces of now-vintage jewelry
They were created during some of [Lagerfeld s] most prolific years at Chanel, and some are one-of-a-kind
The auction is also set to include decor from the 12,000-square-foot Fifth Avenue apartment that Susan sold for $53 million after her husband s death
DENVER, Pa. â Bidders had a taste for luxury and rarity at Morphyâs lavish Dec. 8-10 pre-Christmas Fine & Decorative Arts Auction, paying above-estimate prices on many of the saleâs premier lots. The $4.3 million event boasted fabulous Tiffany lamps, art glass, high-quality silver, bronzes, coins, fine art, and a formidable array of art pottery, including exotic Amphora. More than 200 lots of magnificent jewelry and important watches attracted the attention of connoisseurs worldwide, with a superb timepiece â a platinum Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar wristwatch, Ref. D34714 â claiming top-lot honors.
Purchased new in Paris in 1994, the automatic âQuantieme Perpetuel Automatiqueâ octagonal wristwatch, hallmarked and featuring moon phases in solid platinum, has a textured blue dial and white gold hands and stick markers. The handsome, substantial watch with a gross weight of 225 grams attracted 17 bids and more than doubled its high
Luxury watches, exquisite jewels, Tiffany lamps and Amphora powered Morphy s glittering $4.3M holiday auction
Portrait of child wearing coral necklace, seated on rug with cat and silver baby toys, oil-on-board, 23in x 29in (sight), unsigned, 1840. Sold for $38,400 against an estimate of $800-$1,200.
DENVER, PA
.- Bidders had a taste for luxury and rarity at Morphys lavish Dec. 8-10 pre-Christmas Fine & Decorative Arts Auction, paying above-estimate prices on many of the sales premier lots. The $4.3 million event boasted fabulous Tiffany lamps, art glass, high-quality silver, bronzes, coins, fine art, and a formidable array of art pottery, including exotic Amphora. More than 200 lots of magnificent jewelry and important watches attracted the attention of connoisseurs worldwide, with a superb timepiece a platinum Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar wristwatch, Ref. D34714 claiming top-lot honors.
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.- To Unravel a Torment is dedicated to the work of Louise Bourgeois (Paris, 1911, Manhattan, New York, 2010), spanning seven decades and featuring works by the artist made between the late 1940s and her death in 2010, at the age of 98 Visited and revisited in countless and intense exhibitions over recent decades, in different museum spaces around the world, the vast and singular oeuvre of Louise Bourgeois is intercrossed by themes that are indelibly associated with the traumatic events and experiences of her childhood. Themes such as family, sexuality, the body, death and the unconscious required intense therapy, which she consciously carried out through her art. In her sculptures, textiles, books, drawings and architectural installations, Louise Bourgeois expressed the tension between opposing forces - male / female, passive / active, architecture / body, love / hate - using formal and symbolic equivalents. Although the roots of her wo