The sprawling personal art collection of David Rockefeller and his wife Peggy goes under auction Tuesday and could become the most valuable single-owner collection in history.
The sale will be conducted by Christie’s online and at auction rooms in the Rockefeller Center in New York. A series of auctions will take place between May 8 and 11.
Proceeds from the lots will go to more than a dozen charities including the Museum of Modern Art, which was founded by the Rockefeller family.
David Rockefeller, who died in 2017, was an American banker and former chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. Forbes estimated his fortune at $3.3 billion at the time of his death.
He was the grandson of industrialist John D. Rockefeller who founded the Standard Oil Company and became one of America’s first billionaires.
Source:CNBC
