Upcoming Rockefeller Auction at Christie’s Includes a Rare Rose Period Picasso

The auction could raise more than $500 million for charity.

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A man looks at the painting "Fillette à la corbeille fleurie" 1905 by late Spanish painter Pablo Picasso at Christie's France, as part of a presentation of the collection Rockefeller in Paris on March 13, 2018, before the sale at Christie's New York. (BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images)
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In May, the collection amassed by David and Peggy Rockefeller is going to auction, hosted by Christie’s. All proceeds will go to charity, and there is a potential that the auction will raise more than $500 million. The auction includes Pablo Picasso’s 1905 painting, Fillette à la Corbeille Fleurie (Young Girl With a Flower Basket). Previously owned by Gertrude Stein, the painting could be worth between $90 million to $120 million. The Rose Period painting hung in the Rockefeller’s Upper East Side townhouse, which is listed for $27 million and currently under contract. The auction also includes Henri Matisse’s 1923 painting, Odalisque Couchée aux Magnolias (Odalisque Lying With Magnolias). Christie’s says that this painting is the highest valued Matisse ever to be presented at auction. There will also be a śevres porcelain dessert service that was made for Napoleon I up for sale. Edouard Manet’s oil painting, Lilas et Roses, done in 1882, will be included too, as well as Claude Monet’s Nymphéas en Feur, circa 1914 to 1917.

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