Sotheby s to offer $150 million art collection of legendary Texan & visionary philanthropist Mrs. John L. Marion
Andy Warhol, Elvis 2 Times, 1963, Silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen. Estimate $20-30 million. Courtesy Sotheby s.
NEW YORK, NY
.- The private collection of visionary philanthropist, renowned art collector, and legendary Texan Anne Marion (1938-2020) will be unveiled for the first time at Sothebys this spring. Widely celebrated throughout her lifetime, both for her generous support of cultural institutions, critical contributions to education and healthcare, and for her passion for the life and traditions of the American Southwest where her family had been rooted for generations, Anne Marion held a fabled status among art lovers and ranchers alike. And yet, despite the public-facing nature of her support for so many leading American museums, the treasures of Anne Marions own private collection have remained until now largely unknown. Sothebys forthcom
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.- A French journalist s investigation into the alleged forgery network around art collector Giuliano Ruffini has also criticised the great negligence of art world experts. The doubts first became public when French police seized a painting owned by the prince of Liechtenstein from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence in 2016. The prince had paid seven million euros at auction for the portrait of the goddess Venus by 16th century Italian painter Lucas Cranach, yet tests would soon reveal that the pigments used in the painting dated from the 20th century. Ruffini was well-known in the art world. Since the 1990s, he had sold dozens even hundreds of paintings by such luminaries as Parmigianino and El Greco to some of the great museums of Europe, including the Louvre, often through intermediaries. Many, he said, had come from the collection of an ex-girlfriend s father, Andre Borie, a civil engineer
Art from Maryland on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore Museum of Art
Stymied in its bid to sell three blue-chip Modern masterworks last fall to help finance its diversity, equity and other goals, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) says it has received three gifts to support such initiatives at the museum.
The museum reports that the philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton has donated $1m to finance diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion (DEAI) efforts. Half of the gift will go towards outlays for those purposes over the next three years, and half will seed the creation of an endowment to ensure that such efforts continue, the BMA says.
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Game changers : Seattle Art Museum receives gift of 19 artworks, worth approximately $400 million
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Lee Krasner (1908-1984), Night Watch, 1960, Oil on canvas, 70 x 99 in.Friday FoundationShow MoreShow Less
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Philip Guston (1913-1980), The Painter, 1976, Oil on canvas, 74 x 116 in.Friday FoundationShow MoreShow Less
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4of6 Number 2, 1949 medium oil on canvas. Dimensions 91 3/4 x 68 7/8in. (233 x 174.9cm), 1949. By Clyfford Still. (From Jane Lang Davis) Show MoreShow Less
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People walk by the Hammering Man in the snow outside the Seattle Art Museum on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.(Photo by Lindsey Wasson)LINDSEY WASSON/seattlepi.com file photoShow MoreShow Less
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The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) received a major gift on Thursday: a charitable donation of 19 exceptional pieces of artwork from the Friday Foundation which celebrates the legacy of local collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis.