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YVES SAINT LAURENT (1936-2008)

Personnage aux étoiles (and scène érotique, verso)

    Price Realised GBP 162,500
    Estimate
    GBP 3,000 - GBP 4,000
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    YVES SAINT LAURENT (1936-2008)

    Personnage aux étoiles (and scène érotique, verso)

    Price Realised GBP 162,500
    Price Realised GBP 162,500
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    YVES SAINT LAURENT (1936-2008)
    Personnage aux étoiles (and scène érotique, verso)
    signed 'yves' (lower right)
    recto: pastel and charcoal on paper
    verso: ink and charcoal on paper
    193⁄4 x 13in. (50.3 x 33cm.)
    Provenance
    Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the artist).
    Private Collection, Germany.
    Acquired from the above by the present owner.
    Special notice
    Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
    This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
    Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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