A Choice Selection from the Bouruet-Aubertot Collection

Published on 09 July 2020, by Claire Papon

Auction on 17 July 2020 - 14:00 (CEST) - Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

It is sometimes said that objects reveal their owners' personalities. This seems to be the case with the three hundred works of art from the estate of an art-loving couple, which adorned their Paris apartment. A combination of refinement and variety.

Angers or Tours, c. 1460. Book of Hours according to the Tours rite, illuminated... A Choice Selection from the Bouruet-Aubertot Collection

Angers or Tours, c. 1460. Book of Hours according to the Tours rite, illuminated parchment manuscript in Latin and French, 141 ff, with eight large miniatures, two of which can be attributed to the circle of Jean Fouquet (Master of the Munich Boccaccio, active in Tours from c. 1460 to 1480) and six to the Master of the Geneva Boccaccio (active in Tours and Angers c. 1445 to 1475).
Estimate: €150,000/€200,000

Here, drawings by writers like Paul Éluard, Max Jacob, Paul Valéry and Robert de Montesquiou rub shoulders with paintings by the Italian and Scandinavian schools, antique watches, medieval and Renaissance sculpture and furniture, Chinese porcelain, majolica and a small collection of French earthenware shoes. But the star item, making its first appearance at auction, is a Book of Hours according to the Tours Rite from the 1460s, with miniatures attributed to artists close to the Master of Jouvenel and Jean Fouquet. No less than €150,000/€200,000 is expected for this book of private devotion, which has come down to us in fine condition. This manuscript – a rediscovery – was the work of two…

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