Appraisal: Yves Saint Laurent Mixed-media Sketch, ca. 1970
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Appraisal: Yves Saint Laurent Mixed-media Sketch, ca. 1970
Watch Graydon Sikes appraise an Yves Saint Laurent mixed-media sketch, ca. 1970, in Castle Farms, Hour 3.
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Appraisal: Yves Saint Laurent Mixed-media Sketch, ca. 1970
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Watch Graydon Sikes appraise an Yves Saint Laurent mixed-media sketch, ca. 1970, in Castle Farms, Hour 3.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: It's a Yves Saint Laurent.
Zizi Jeanmaire, who happens to be the main character in the painting, was one of his muses and a famous ballerina, I think.
Her husband was Roland Petit, who produced a lot of ballets.
Purchased it in 2006 in Manhattan in someone's-- some gentleman's basement.
(chuckles) APPRAISER (chuckling): Okay.
GUEST: And I paid $1,800 for it.
APPRAISER: Well, Yves Saint Laurent needs no introduction.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: He's obviously an iconic 20th century fashion designer.
But what is perhaps less known is that he was a pretty prolific sketch artist, as he would have to be.
He was designing shoes and dress lines.
This is a pretty compelling example.
It's signed in the lower center, and as you mentioned, we have "Ballets de Roland Petit" and "Zizi Jeanmaire," who was indeed a famous ballerina.
And her husband was Petit.
Yves Saint Laurent associated with the two of them.
He was friends of theirs.
It's a pretty busy scene.
We have some dancers in costume.
It's pastel, gouache and charcoal.
So sort of a mixed media.
In all likelihood, this would have been around the 1960s or '70s, really at the height of his career, and after he had started his own fashion line.
On the back of the painting, there was a label that indicated that it had sold before.
I tracked that sale down.
It was in 1997.
GUEST: Oh, cool.
APPRAISER: And it sold for the amount of $2,700.
But we're-- that's almost 30 years ago now.
His work frequently comes up at auctions, his sketches and vast majority are portrait studies.
This is a little more substantial than most of what you see selling.
An auction estimate for the work would fall in the area of $10,000 to $15,000.
GUEST: Okay, wow, yeah, good.
I'm pleased.
(laughs) APPRAISER: It's a killer example.
GUEST: Yeah, it is.
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