In June, Christie's Paris will put 800 works amassed by Givenchy, on the block—including one special Giacometti bronze.
, has never been on the secondary market before, and it’s estimated to bring roughly $2.6 million to $3.7 million. There are some choice pieces of European furniture made in the 18th and 19th centuries, too, including a Louis XV-period, neoclassical-style ebony bureau plat attributed to Joseph Baumhauer, predicted to go for a sum in the million-dollar range., conceived in the early 1930s and cast in 1955, may fetch the most; its estimate is only available upon request.
Standing about five feet high, the work—a gift from close Givenchy friend and client Bunny Mellon—has the exaggeratedly slender proportions typical of the artist’s later and more famous oeuvre, though it was dreamed up much earlier, in his Surrealist period.“It’s the very first treatment of the walking figure, the subject he’s going to hold onto for his whole career,” says Christie’s France deputy chairman Anika Guntrum.