30 pieces from the collection of Texas oil heiress Cecil Amelia Blaffer will go to auction at Christie’s New York next month, with works by Picasso, Rothko and more expected to earn more than $40 million. “What we are seeing more and more is the interesting collections that were put together 40, 50 years ago,†says Adrien Meyer, Christie’s co-chairman of Impressionist and modern art. “They precisely represent moments of collecting history†and people who were “buying at the moment of pivotal art innovations,†he said.
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