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Don’t go breaking my art: Warhol and Picasso for sale after billionaire couple’s divorce
Warhol's 'Self-Portrait' features as the star of the Sotheby's auction
Artworks by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and other modern masters are going up for auction in a sale ordered by a US court as part of a billionaire couple’s acrimonious divorce.
Sotheby’s auction house announced on the 18 February that it will offer 30 works from the Macklowe Collection on 16 May 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.
The pieces being auctioned in May were collectively valued at hundreds of millions of dollars following their split in 2016.
