Two auctions at Christie’s in Paris

15/6/26 - Art market - Paris - Another family château, a Historic Monument shamefully stripped of its contents? Not this time: the two sales, dispersing at Christie’s in Paris the collections of the Château de Tournay, are not marked by the bitter taste of furniture ensembles scattered after having lasted for generations. Our colleagues from across the Jura specify that the current owners of this house have only occupied it for about fifteen years, have carefully restored it and especially refurnished it, but are planning to sell it soon [1]. A part of the objects housed in this former residence of Voltaire and then Alfred Baur has even already been sold in April at Genève Enchères but the flagship lots have gone to Paris where they have been exhibited since this weekend awaiting the…