What Will Happen To Bill Gates Art Collection Post Divorce
Bill and Melinda Gates are in the process of divorcing, but what will happen to their art collection?. A Seattle court has been told that they have worked out a plan to split their assets. The plan is not public. The Microsoft founder has a net worth of $120 billion, as published by Forbes. Gates has been actively buying high-value American Impressionism and early Twentieth Century art. including a Winslow Homer purchased for a record-breaking $36 million in 1998, and a George Bellows bought for $27.5 million. Other works of art include important pieces by Childe Hassam. The market for American art has dropped in recent years; however, it is not expected that one of the worlds great philanthropists will be selling up but instead donating the works to a public gallery.