Christie’s lands $180M modern art collection for November sales

Christie's CHD ↗ 1.43% announced in late August that it has secured the collection of American collectors Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis for its November sales in New York, marking one of the first major consignments ahead of the fall auction season. The collection, assembled over more than 70 years, is estimated at over $180 million and features 80 works spanning major 20th-century art movements.

The collection includes masterworks by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, Piet Mondrian, and Joan Miró. According to The New York Times, the acquisition surprised even Christie's vice chairman Max Carter, who described receiving the collection spreadsheet as "one of those collections that was extremely private." The works have remained largely unseen in the couple's ranch-style home in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, a town of fewer than 10,000 residents in the Susquehanna Valley.nytimes

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