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Art from acrimonious divorce raises $676m at Sotheby’s in New York
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An acrimonious divorce in which the warring parties were ordered to sell an art collection including works by Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko after being unable to agree its worth, has resulted in the most valuable auction ever held by one of the world’s leading art houses.
More than $676m(£503m) was paid for the Macklowe Collection, amassed over more than half a century by the real estate magnate Harry Macklowe and Linda Macklowe, an honorary trustee of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The total sum made the sale the most valuable single-owner auction ever staged, and the most valuable auction held at Sotheby’s, the auction house said.
The 35 works included Rothko’s 8ft tall Number 7, which was sold for $82.5m, the largest
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