Up for sale
Jack Rubin
"prized works by some of the world's greatest artists are expected to fetch
tens of millions of pounds each when they go under the hammer in New York
next week. Most attention, however, will be focused on Garcon A La Pipe -
Boy with Pipe - by Pablo Picasso, the cubist master, and Racing Scene, by
Eduoard Manet, the impressionist pioneer.
The Picasso masterpiece, painted during his rose period, is estimated to
achieve a price tag of more than £40m, while Manet's depiction of a day at
the races could sell for up to £17m.
The paintings, to be sold by Sotheby's in New York on May 5, are among 34
pieces of modern and impressionist art to be sold from the collection of
American philanthropists Betsey and John Hay Whitney.
According to Bill Ruprecht, the collection "is the most exciting group of
paintings that Sotheby's has ever had the opportunity to auction".
Mrs. Hay Whitney, whose grandfather was a secretary to President Abraham
Lincoln and an ambassador to the UK, left the private collection to the
Greentree Foundation, which she founded after the death of her husband in
1982.
The works were bequeathed with the instruction that all proceeds should be
donated to the charity, which is dedicated to promoting human rights and
social justice.
PRIZED works by some of the world's greatest artists are expected to fetch
tens of millions of pounds each when they go under the hammer in New York
next week.
Most attention, however, will be focused on Garcon A La Pipe - Boy with
Pipe - by Pablo Picasso, the cubist master, and Racing Scene, by Eduoard
Manet, the impressionist pioneer.
The Picasso masterpiece, painted during his rose period, is estimated to
achieve a price tag of more than £40m, while Manet's depiction of a day at
the races could sell for up to £17m.
The paintings, to be sold by Sotheby's in New York on May 5, are among 34
pieces of modern and impressionist art to be sold from the collection of
American philanthropists Betsey and John Hay Whitney.
According to Bill Ruprecht, the collection "is the most exciting group of
paintings that Sotheby's has ever had the opportunity to auction".
Mrs. Hay Whitney, whose grandfather was a secretary to President Abraham
Lincoln and an ambassador to the UK, left the private collection to the
Greentree Foundation, which she founded after the death of her husband in
1982.
The works were bequeathed with the instruction that all proceeds should be
donated to the charity, which is dedicated to promoting human rights and
social justice.
PRIZED works by some of the world's greatest artists are expected to fetch
tens of millions of pounds each when they go under the hammer in New York
next week.
Most attention, however, will be focused on Garcon A La Pipe - Boy with
Pipe - by Pablo Picasso, the cubist master, and Racing Scene, by Eduoard
Manet, the impressionist pioneer.
The Picasso masterpiece, painted during his rose period, is estimated to
achieve a price tag of more than £40m, while Manet's depiction of a day at
the races could sell for up to £17m.
The paintings, to be sold by Sotheby's in New York on May 5, are among 34
pieces of modern and impressionist art to be sold from the collection of
American philanthropists Betsey and John Hay Whitney.
According to Bill Ruprecht, the collection "is the most exciting group of
paintings that Sotheby's has ever had the opportunity to auction".
Mrs. Hay Whitney, whose grandfather was a secretary to President Abraham
Lincoln and an ambassador to the UK, left the private collection to the
Greentree Foundation, which she founded after the death of her husband in
1982.
The works were bequeathed with the instruction that all proceeds should be
donated to the charity, which is dedicated to promoting human rights and
social justice.
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Andrew Werby
www.unitedartworks.com
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