Sotheby's Paris -- Furniture, Silver & Old Master Paintings formerly from the collection Madame Antenor Patino / Sept 22
On 22 September 2010 Sotheby’s Paris will have the honor of offering Furniture, Silver and Old Master Paintings from the collection of Madame Antenor Patiño. The collection - divided between La Quinta, her principal residence in Portugal, and her Paris flat - affords Sotheby’s the opportunity to once again pay tribute to the renowned Patiño taste and style, in particular to that of Beatriz Patiño (Madame Antenor Patiño), the guardian of this legacy until her death in 2009.
Such taste and style were found in all of her residences, starting with La Quinta, her sumptuous home in Estoril (Portugal) completed in 1990, where every detail contributed to the subtle harmony between the Baroque and more intimate decor. Madame Patiño lavished similar care on decorating her Paris flat and New York apartment - a portion of whose contents were offered by Sotheby’s in 1997, when she moved to a new home in New York.
The sale of this collection at Sotheby’s Paris, staged in collaboration with the experts Millerand & Saint-Seine, perpetuates a tradition dating back to the Antenor Patiño estate auction in New York in 1986. Sotheby’s has since had the great honour of selling collections of books and manuscripts, furniture, silver and Old Masters from various branches of the Patiño family.