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Sotheby's wins the Macklowe collection

2021-09-10T15:28:48.610Z


In the Macklowe war, Sotheby's wins. (HANDLE) (ANSA) - NEW YORK, 10 SEPT - Sotheby's wins in the Macklowe war. The New York auction house has won the sale of the collection of cement tycoon Harry Macklowe and his now ex-wife Linda: starting value from Guinness: 600 million dollars for 65 works, never before has such an expensive collection been put on the market. enchantment. All because of the Solomonic decision of a magistrate: deliberating


(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 10 SEPT - Sotheby's wins in the Macklowe war. The New York auction house has won the sale of the collection of cement tycoon Harry Macklowe and his now ex-wife Linda: starting value from Guinness: 600 million dollars for 65 works, never before has such an expensive collection been put on the market. enchantment. All because of the Solomonic decision of a magistrate: deliberating on the couple's divorce after six decades of marriage, Judge Laura Drager had ordered the duelitiganti to put on the market the Warhol, Rothko, Twombly and Richter accumulated in 60 years of collecting, since Harry and Linda had failed to agree on the value of the individual pieces. The auction scheduled in two sessions,The premiere in November and then in May to allow the market to absorb multiple works by individual artists, thus closes the last chapter of one of the longest and most contentious divorces in recent New York history.


    Harry and Linda, having arrived one step away from the diamond wedding, had married very young: he was twenty years old, she one older. Today, the 80-year-old Harry is one of the most well-known builders in Manhattan - his are the new skyscrapers Park 432 and One WallStreet - but at the time of his marriage neither he nor his wife were particularly wealthy. "However, they had a passion for art and immediately began to buy works that are now worth a fortune, putting together a world-famous collection of modern and contemporary art", the judge wrote, noting that "even if the collection is in her name, the art is marital property ". The Macklowes have been separated for five years: he left his wife for his current partner Patricia Landeau, a French woman 18 years younger. Once the auction has ended,you and you will have to share the fruit in equal parts. (HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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