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Heroes for Imagine I

Exceptionnal charity auction for the Imagine Institute

Sep 4 - Sep 9, 2015

Mennour, 28 avenue Matignon

« Thank you all for your generosity.
Artists, VIP’s, donors, bidders all enabled the succes of this wonderful auction. It was a moment of grace and communion : all together for the research on genetic diseases ! »

— Kamel Mennour

On the 10th of September, Kamel Mennour, the Imagine Institute, and Christie's France, have joined together in defence of excellence, openness, and creativity for an exceptionnal auction with all profits going to the Imagine Institute, a unique center for research, care and teaching around children's and adult's genetic diseases.

The result of the auction held on the 10th of Septembre 2015 :

AUCTION : 2 739 100 €

DONATION : 208 620 €

A total of 2 947 720 € to cure genetic diseases

A very special thanks to the artists, Mohamed Bourouissa, Marie Bovo, Daniel Buren, Latifa Echakhch, Camille Henrot, Huang Yong Ping, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, Tadashi Kawamata, Lee Ufan, Claude Lévêque, Philippe Parreno and Martial Raysse and to the VIP’s who have all agreed to put some unique experiences under the hammer : Azzedine Alaïa, Patrick Bruel, Éric Cantona, Peter Lindbergh, Benjamin Millepied, François Pinault and Gad Elmaleh, an extraordinary master of ceremonies for the evening with François de Ricqlès.

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