Jeanne-Marie de Broglie: Princess who shaped the international art market
The private art collection of the late Princess Jeanne-Marie de Broglie is set to be auctioned at Christie’s in Paris. The collection features avant-garde works and furniture, highlighting her influence on the international art market during the 1970s and 1980s.
Why it matters
The sale offers insight into the tastes of a prominent art collector and the historical value of avant-garde pieces in the modern market.
Table basse 'Berceau', Diego Giacometti (1902-1985).
It is a tribute to the Parisian taste of Jeanne-Marie de Broglie that the furniture she collected in the 1970s and 1980s is of a type that makes vast sums of money in today’s market. Maybe the key is thinking outside the box. Princess Jeanne-Marie, the forward-looking daughter of a duke who established Christie’s Paris office in 1968, did not go for the fashion of the time. Instead, she followed the avant-garde.
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