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Famous Names

December 24, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Carol Vogel’s column in the New York Times previews Sotheby’s Old Master sale in January.  The highlights are works being sold by three well-known personages. Jayne Wrightsman is moving out her London apartment, Dorothy Cherry is moving house in Connecticut and Gordon Getty has had three works in storage:

A portrait by Zurbarán is being sold by Dorothy Cherry, a collector and widow of Wendell Cherry, who was the president and chief executive of Humana, the health insurance company. There are also three scenes of Venice — a pair of Canaletto canvases and a Guardi — belonging to Gordon Getty, a philanthropist and an heir to the Getty oil fortune. And there are three 18th-century paintings — by Hubert Robert, Agostino Brunias and Jean-Baptiste Oudry — that had hung in a London apartment belonging to Jayne Wrightsman, a longtime board member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Inside Art: When Famous Names Sell Famous Paintings (New York Times)

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