The art collection belonging to the couturier Yves Saint Laurent - died on 1 June this year - and its companion Pierre Bergé will be auctioned in February 2009. Led by the auction house Christie’s in association with the auction house Pierre Bergé, the sale will take place in Paris. The collection of both art lovers together objects of primitive arts, enamels, statuettes of the Renaissance, Art Deco furniture and a range of contemporary artists and Old Masters that includes Picasso, Warhol, Mondrian, Matisse and Goya.. Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé had 40 years to collect these works.

Yves Saint-Laurent by Andy Warhol (1928-1987/American)

Catherine Deneuve & Yves Saint Laurent

Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening. He was 71.