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The city of light lives also by reflected glory, and rarely 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.
The library of Yves St. Laurent and Pierre Bergé's apartment on Rue de Babylone in Paris.
An oval-shaped "Portrait of the Comtesse de La Rue," by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, in the living room.
"Portrait of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci," by Thomas Gainsborough, top, and "Nu au bord de la mer," center right, by Henri Matisse.
The "Music Room" with 15 mirrors by Claude Lalanne in gilt bronze and galvanized copper.
Mr. Saint Laurent and his longtime business and personal partner, Pierre Bergé, collected some beautiful art and artifacts in their decades together.
"Portrait of Alfred and Elisabeth Dedreux," by Théodore Géricault, above, and "The Violin," by Juan Gris, center.
