Why is the Louvre auctioning off its hedges?
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. It’s your chance to buy a branch of the Louvre. No, not the European paintings collection or the Egyptian treasures, but – in 14 lots offered on the Drouot Digital website this week – a batch of boxwood plants from the Jardin de l’Infante, a garden tucked against the south-eastern corner of the Louvre, between the Sully Wing and the River Seine. Each lot offers you 60–70 Sempervirens boxwoods, ‘representing a square of their current a...
Source: apollo-magazine.com