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Tuesday, 07 October 2014 16:17

The Schlumberger Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art Could Fetch Over $85 Million at Sotheby’s

    Mark Rothko's 'No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange),' 1951. Mark Rothko's 'No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange),' 1951.

 As anticipation of the upcoming fall auction season continues to build, Sotheby’s has announced that it will offer the illustrious Schlumberger Collection during its Evening and Day Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art and Contemporary Art on November 4-5 and November 11-12, respectively. The collection, which brings together over ninety modern and contemporary masterworks from the twentieth century, is expected to fetch over $85 million.

Pierre Schlumberger, an aristocratic French oil-industry tycoon, and his beautiful Portuguese wife, São, are considered two of the most visionary collectors of the twentieth century.

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