Gazette Drouot INTERNATIONAL GROS & DELETTREZ Auctioneers FORMER COLLECTION OF Paul-Louis Weiller Albert Cuyp : Woman Milking a Cow, oil on canvas, 94 x 120cm, signed est. €600,000-800,000 Highly important silver tureen by Ignaz Joseph Würth, from the second Saxe-Teschen service. 1779-1781. Est. : € 150,000 - 200,000 Imperial Jade long wei gong vase adorned with a poem by Commode with cipher of Catherine II of Russia with Emperor Qianlong H. : 22,5 cm Estimate on request solid silver mounts Est. €500,000-700,000 GROS & DELETTREZ AUCTIONS 22, rue Drouot - 75009 Paris Tel. : + 33 (0)1 47 70 83 04 5, 6, 7 & 8 April 2011 Fax : + 33 (0)1 45 23 01 64
[email protected] VIEWING www.gros-delettrez.com Agrément n°2002-033 2, 3, 4 April 2011 Browse catalogue : st www.gros-delettrez.com HÔTEL DROUOT (1 Floor) Online bidding available 9 rue Drouot - 75009 Paris CONTENTS UPCOMING . 7 EXHIBITIONS . 52 America in stone… Piet Mondrian : the road to abstraction INTERVIEW RESULTS . 18 THE IMAGINARY . 54 Drouot results for 2010… Lucas Cranach the Elder TRENDS . 32 MUSEUM . 58 The new art Eldorado? Women in Orient seen by Christian Lacroix EVENT . 36 MEETING . 62 Paris, capital of drawing At the Art Institute of Chicago DESIGN . 48 FRENCH LUXURY . 70 Christian Ghion, an experimental alchemist Cartier the noble THE MAGAZINE EDITORIAL Because the world today is only a mouse-click away, information is increasingly rapid, and our societies, living life in the fast lane, are constantly seeking to telescope time… Because the art market learned very early on to integrate the new rules of globa- lisation.