Jacques- Emile Blanche’s portrait of Claude Debussy pre-empted at €220,000 (£188,035) by the Cité de Musique – Philharmonie de Paris at Ader.
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A portrait of the composer Claude Debussy painted by the French artist Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942) met with a flurry of phone bids when it came up for sale on October 12 in Paris.