Christie`s to offer works from the Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass
(Artdaily.org)

Christie’s has been entrusted with The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass, which will be offered throughout Christie’s 20th Century Week. The most substantial grouping will lead the specially retitled Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Including The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass. Highlights will also be included in the Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art. Comprising 36 works in total, the collection is expected to realize in excess of $120 million. Max Carter, Head of Department Impressionist and Modern Art, New York, remarked: “It is our signal honor to have been entrusted with The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass. Quietly assembled over forty years and comprising the best of Impressionist, Modern and Post-War art, the collection is led by five museum-quality masterworks—Kees van Dongen’s Fauve, larger-than-life Portrait de Madame Malpel, among the artist’s