The Mind Creative FEB 2014
Les Liliacees
By Pierre-Joseph Redoute
Dividing lines that make you wonder
This collection was bought by a syndicate led by art dealer W.
Graham Arader for $5 million. This is Empress Josephine’s copy
featuring 468 watercolours of flowers on vellum. The set consists
of sixteen volumes, published between 1802 and 1816.
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