Saint-Laurent Collection Livens Up A Sluggish Auction Market

“[R]arely has an event been more ‘mediatized,’ as the French like to say, than next week’s auction of the collection of one Yves Saint Laurent, who died last June at 71. Christie’s has spent $1.2 million alone on renting and refurbishing 140,000 square feet of the Grand Palais for the auction. Six separate sales are scheduled over three days.”