Christies to Auction Goudstikker Collection of Old Masters
Published February 22nd, 2007
Bloomberg.com - Christie’s International, which has a big business selling art for Nazi victims’ heirs, said it will auction half of the 200 old-master pictures returned to the heir of art dealer Jacques Goudstikker by the Dutch government.
The Goudstikker collection, which includes works by Salomon van Ruysdael, Jan van der Heyden and Jan Steen, was stolen from his gallery, said Marei von Saher, the widow of the Amsterdam dealer’s only son, in a joint e-mailed statement with the auction house. Christie’s will offer pictures at three sales: April 19 in New York, July 5 in London, and in November in Amsterdam.
The paintings may fetch from $22 million to $35 million, the New York Times reported earlier. London-based Christie’s declined to say if it had won the consignment with a promise of minimum prices.
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