Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Yves Saint Laurent’s pet dog is watching as hundreds of visitors come to see his late master’s personal belongings which go on auction in Paris next week.

Moujik IV, a French bulldog, is attracting much attention, though he isn’t included in the sale of effects. Buyers can snap up the fashion designer’s collection of 14 ceramic bulldogs, his Cartier alarm clock, cigarette box and Mercedes car.

The sale of possessions of the late couturier and his partner Pierre Berge may make as much as 6 million euros ($10 million) for their AIDS charity. The main event took place earlier this year and raised 342.5 million euros, the highest total ever achieved at auction for a private art collection.

“This time it’s more personal,” Jonathan Rendell, deputy chairman, Christie’s International Americas, said in an interview. “People are fascinated by the more everyday things that belonged to Saint Laurent. This isn’t the great tribute that the February exhibition was. Then people queued up to look at masterpieces they knew they wouldn’t be able to see again.”

Christie’s YSL Part II sale, held in collaboration with Pierre Berge and Associates, will take place on Nov. 17-20. About half of the 1,200 items were removed from the couple’s coastal retreat, Chateau Gabriel, near Deauville in Normandy, whose interiors Christie’s has recreated. Other items came from the couple’s apartments in Paris.

The Cartier bedside clock is expected to fetch as much as 12,000 euros, while a silver-covered cigarette box, also by Cartier, carries an estimate of 1,000 euros to 1,500 euros.

Guest Moujik

The group of porcelain and glass statuettes of French bulldogs -- Saint Laurent’s favorite breed -- is expected to fetch between 400 euros and 600 euros. Sitting next to them is Moujik IV, the last in a line of bulldogs owned by the designer, who has been an honorary guest at Christie’s view.

“He’s moved right in,” said Rendell. “He’s become part of the marketing team.”

A black Mercedes Benz S Class 350L, dating from 2007, was the last car owned by the designer. It has a top estimate of 50,000 euros.

Saint Laurent and Berge bought Chateau Gabriel in the early 1980s. The 19th-century mansion in Benerville was decorated by interior designer Jacques Grange in a fin-de-siecle style inspired by Marcel Proust’s novel “A la Recherche du Temps Perdu.”

A pair of late-19th-century bronze stands from Saint Laurent’s bedroom, named after the novel’s character Charles Swann, carries a high estimate of 50,000 euros. A similarly dated 34-armed Dutch copper ceiling light from the entrance hall is expected to fetch as much as 70,000 euros, said Christie’s.

Leger Gouache

Fernand Leger’s 1950 gouache “Les travailleurs au repos,” one of the items removed from Saint Laurent and Berge’s Paris apartments, is among the most highly-estimated works of art in the sale, at 50,000 euros to 70,000 euros.

Most of the lots in the auction carry official valuations of less than 10,000 euros.

“The estimates are as cheap as chips,” said Rendell. “I think we’re probably looking at a total that will double the 3- million-euro low estimate. A lot of things are going to break out in price.”

Chairs that were thought to have featured in an “Inca” ball in Paris in 1812 are Rendell’s nomination for “sleeper” of the sale at 7,000 euros to 9,000 euros for the pair.

“They were the things everyone wanted to buy when I first showed people around Saint Laurent’s apartment in the rue de Babylone,” said Rendell.

Grand Palais

The first Saint Laurent sale, held at the Grand Palais in Paris in February, exceeded a low estimate of 200 million euros, based on hammer prices. Thirty thousand visitors queued for up to four hours to view that presale exhibition, said Christie’s.

The event made headlines when a leather “dragons” armchair made by Art-Deco designer Eileen Gray sold for 21.9 million euros ($28 million). Two Qing dynasty bronze animal heads, plundered by foreign troops in the 19th century, were declared sold at 31.4 million euros. Cai Mingchao, the Chinese dealer who placed the winning bid, later refused to pay. Christie’s total for the YSL Part I auction doesn’t include the Chinese bronzes.

“The issue has not yet been resolved,” Christie’s said in an e-mail statement in response to questions about the bronzes.

(Scott Reyburn writes about the art market for Bloomberg News. Opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the writer on the story: Scott Reyburn in London at sreyburn@hotmail.com.

Last Updated: November 13, 2009 19:00 EST