Book; Rolf and Margit Weinberg Collection of Impressionist & Modernist Paintings - $20 - (Northampton, MA)

An Interesting Auction Catalog- “Paintings from the Rolf and Margit Weinberg Collection” The catalog to an auction held in New York by Sotheby's on May 13 & 27, 1998. description continues below the picture- - - - DISCUSSION: The catalog of an auction devoted to Impressionist & Modernist art from the Margit Weinberg collection, including works by: Gustave Courbet, Pablo Picasso, and Fernand Leger. The sale was a highlight in a rather humdrum Spring auction season. The March 27, 1998 New York Times "Inside Art" column reported: "Some experts blame the mild winter. Others say it is fate. But whatever the reason, after a blockbuster fall when the estates of big-name collectors like Victor and Sally Ganz and Evelyn Sharp were sold at auction, no equally important collectors have either died or decided to sell their works over the last six months, leaving auction house experts scrambling for property to sell. Sotheby's, though, has been able to snag one reasonably important group of paintings: 10 works valued at $10 million that belong to Rolf and Margit Weinberg, collectors from Zurich who plan to sell a selection of their paintings at Sotheby's York Avenue headquarters on May 13. The Weinbergs are selling for two reasons: Mr. Weinberg, who owns a clothing store in Zurich, is retiring and wants to put away some cash for the future. And the couple have begun to focus their collection on Old Master paintings and Swiss Constructivist works. Highlights from the artworks they are selling include Courbet's 'Portrait of Jo, the Beautiful Irish Woman,' from 1866. Also up for sale is Picasso's 'Casagemas in his Coffin,' a 1901 painting from the artist's blue period. It depicts Picasso's friend Carles Casagemas, who shot himself six months before Picasso painted the work. The remaining eight paintings for sale are by artists like Oskar Schlemmer, Aleksei von Jawlensky and Theo van Doesburg, who are better known in Europe than the United States. Parts of the collection are …

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