The sale of part of the collection of Jacqueline Delubac, an actress who was at one time the wife of writer and film-maker Sacha Guitry, met success at Drouot-Montaigne on March 16th 1998. A pair of two 18th Century Chinese blue porcelain vases with bronze mountings fetched 3,436,000 FF inclusive of buyer premium (US $ 565,000) while a 1908 100 x 81 cm painting by Dutch artist Kees van Dongen representing a naked maid on a bed sold for 8,3 million francs inclusive of buyer premium (US $ 1,362,000). A painting by Georges Rouault, titled "Fathma" went for 2,5 millions francs (US $ 418,000), five times above the pre-sale estimate. All lots were sold for a total of 30 millions francs (almost US $ 5 million)
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