18th Century art to be auctioned in France

Items from the estate of a French dairy company founder's son Daniel Carasso are to be auctioned in Paris on Friday, with prices expected to reach up to one million euros.

The most highly-valued piece is a painting by French artist Fernand Leger, entitled "Still Life on Yellow Background," which is expected to fetch between 700 thousand and a million euro. Other paintings include Monet's "Study of Rushes" and Renoir's "Woman in Pink in Countryside". Joan Miro's "The Warrior King" sculpture, valued at 250 to 300 thousand euros is also going under the hammer.

The items were collected by Daniel Carasso whose father founded the Danone dairy company, named after his son - and his wife Nina, whose interest lay principally in eighteenth-century French furniture, Impressionist paintings and modern and contemporary sculptures.