SAINT GANDHI & SAINT LAURENT

In the red corner, one pair of round metal spectacles, one pair of leather sandals, a pocket watch, and a metal bowl and plate from which the Indian independence leader ate his last meal before he was assassinated in 1948.

In the blue corner, 733 lots including a 1911 Matisse painting of a pot of flowers Les Coucous, tapis bleu et rose, a dragon chair from 1917-19 by Eileen Gray and a pair of two Qing dynasty bronzes sculpted in the form of the heads of a rat and a rabbit. 

Mahatma’s haul fetched $1.8m (£1.3m).

Yves haul fetched $483.8m (£348.96m).

Via a global poll, we asked people whose grandchild they’d rather be. Whose corner do you stand in?

March 9, 2009
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