Sotheby's selling art treasures from divorced couple's trove
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Artworks by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and other modern masters are going up for auction as part of a billionaire couple’s acrimonious divorce
LONDON -- Artworks by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and other modern masters are going up for auction in a sale ordered by a U.S. court as part of a billionaire couple’s acrimonious divorce.
Sotheby’s auction house announced Friday that it will offer 30 works from the Macklowe Collection on May 16 in New York.
The works belonged to New York property developer Harry Macklowe and his wife Linda, who spent 40 years assembling a collection by some of the 20th century’s greatest artists, displaying many of them in their grand apartment in Manhattan's Plaza building.
After they split in 2016, a judge ordered the collection sold as part of the divorce settlement. The pieces being auctioned in May are collectively valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.
