Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
When a family’s eye becomes a legacy
Charles Cator, Deputy Chairman of Christie’s EMEA, invites us into the world of Les Stern: une famille de collectionneurs — a collection shaped over three generations by a family of remarkable discernment. From Edgard Stern’s devotion to 18th-century French painting and Palais-Royal masterpieces to Alice Goldschmidt’s passion for glass, ceramics, and late 19th-century art, each generation enriched the ensemble with its own sensibility.
Now presented in a live auction in Paris and an accompanying online sale, the collection spans Old Masters, sculpture, bronze, Asian works of art, and exceptional silver, with several pieces bearing poignant histories of wartime restitution. A collection forged through curiosity, connoisseurship, and a deeply personal vision — now poised to begin its next chapter.
📅 Paris live auction, 11 December 2025, 2pm CET
📅 Online auction, 28 November – 12 December 2025
When a family’s eye becomes a legacy
Charles Cator, Deputy Chairman of Christie’s EMEA, invites us into the world of Les Stern: une famille de collectionneurs — a collection shaped over three generations by a family of remarkable discernment. From Edgard Stern’s devotion to 18th-century French painting and Palais-Royal masterpieces to Alice Goldschmidt’s passion for glass, ceramics, and late 19th-century art, each generation enriched the ensemble with its own sensibility.
Now presented in a live auction in Paris and an accompanying online sale, the collection spans Old Masters, sculpture, bronze, Asian works of art, and exceptional silver, with several pieces bearing poignant histories of wartime restitution. A collection forged through curiosity, connoisseurship, and a deeply personal vision — now poised to begin its next chapter.
📅 Paris live auction, 11 December 2025, 2pm CET
📅 Online auction, 28 November – 12 December 2025
