A little over a year after his death, the content of the residences of the former Minister of Culture was dispersed on May 16, in Drouot. More than 350 works which, from Paris to Tunisia, evoke its universe to the scent of another century.
We cannot really talk about a collection. It was not in the mind of Frédéric Mitterrand, president of President François Mitterrand and former Minister of Culture, who died on March 21, 2024, at 76, of cancer. This storyteller with a melancholy voice, both producer, journalist, writer, loved all the arts. With a culture nourished by sensitivity, he has accumulated, over his meetings, many memories linked to a loved one, a touching story or an event that fascinated him. They are a reflection of a busy life.
Due to his profession which gave him access to everything, Frédéric Mitterrand was able to fill his insatiable curiosity. Shared between the desire to make very large and always remain modest, he filled with objects, paintings, books, photographs, posters and sometimes small things which had for him great emotional value, his residences in Paris, Saint-Gratien, in Val-d’Oise, and Hammamet, in Tunisia. The result is some 350 works …
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