OVA - THE ARISTOPHIL COLLECTIONS - Spring session

Paris • The 4 auction houses gathered under the name OVA (The Auction Houses for the Aristophil Collections - Aguttes, Artcurial, Drouot Estimations and Ader) are pleased to announce the Spring series of sales will take place on 1 to 5 April 2019 at Drouot. 7 auctions will be offered, comprising over 1,500 lots estimated globally at €10M. For the first time since the inaugural sale on 20 December 2017, the Spring series will include the theme of ‘History’. 3 sales are curated upon this theme, 2 of which are dedicated to the most important figures of France and its neighbours and the third sale focuses on book bindings featuring the coat-of-arms of some of these personalities. 2 auctions will focus on Fine Arts, with interesting parallels between correspondences or essays and drawings and paintings by the same artists. A sale will present some of the greatest names of the French 19^th and 20^th centuries literature, and finally, an auction will consist of correspondences smuggled out of Paris by air during the siege of 1870-1871.

Since 20 December 2017, 14 auctions of the Aristophil Collections have been organised by the OVA (Aguttes, Artcurial, Drouot Estimations and Ader) at Drouot. Highlights include 3 lots selling above €1M among 10 lots that sold above €500K, 47 preemptions by museums and institutions and a total of sales that reaches €30.6M.

Auction n°15 • Aguttes • 1^st April • 2pm
FINE ARTS • Works and correspondences of painters ; Impressionnist and Modern works
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Auction n°16 • Artcurial • 2 April • 2pm
FINE ARTS • Written and graphic works by artists from the 16^th to the 20^th centuries

Auction n°17 • Aguttes • 3 April • 2pm
LITERATURE • Writers of the 19^th and 20^th centuries
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Auction n°18 • Ader • 4 April • 2pm
HISTORY • Pages from History

Auction n°19 • Aguttes • 4 April • 4:30pm
HISTORY • Important historical figures
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Auction n°20 • Aguttes • 5 April • 2pm
MAILING HISTORY • 1870's War
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Auction n°21 • Drouot Estimations • 5 April • 4:15pm
LITERATURE • Napoleonic Library






PRESS CONTACTS
For auctions n°15 and 17 to 21: Mathilde Fennebresque / +33 (0) 6 35 03 49 87 / [email protected]
For auction n°16: Jean-Baptiste Duquesne / +33 (0) 6 78 58 76 98 / [email protected]

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