Gérard Depardieu’s Art Collection Nets $4.2 Million at Paris Auction

French actor Gérard Depardieu has remained low-profile since he was accused of sexual assault and harassment in 2018 and again in April 2023. However, that didn’t stop art collectors from bidding on items from his collection.

A two-day auction in Paris this week raked in approximately $4.2 million, according to The New York Times.

More than 230 items were put up for auction on Tuesday and Wednesday in a sale helmed by the Ader auction house at the Hôtel Drouot. Among the items sold were Alexander Calder paintings and sculptures made by Auguste Rodin, who Depardieu, now 74, played in the 1988 film Camille Claudel, according to the report.

Some of the sale’s most in-demand items were Odilon Redon’s flower vase oil painting and three sculptures by Rodin. The painting sold for about $52,000, while the sculptures went for between $15,000 and $68,000, per the Times.

In a bit of a twist, an enlarged 4.5-foot “Walking Man” bronze sculpture, originally crafted in 1945 by Germaine Richier, received a bid for more than $535,000, but on Wednesday the auction house announced in a statement that Depardieu had a change of heart and decided to hold onto the piece that was once showcased in his living room, the Times reported.