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Sothebys Paris to offer the Marsel & Zaira Mis Collection of Modern & Contemporary Art |
| September 30th, 2012 01:35:19 am |
PARIS.- The sale of the Zaira & Marsel Mis Collection on 24 October 2012 will be one of the top auction events in Paris this Autumn. The collection was formed by Zaira and Marsel Mis over nearly half a century, and includes works from Egon Schiele to Andy Warhol via Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana, Robert Rauschenberg, Alighiero Boetti, and features above all an extraordinary ensemble of works by Ren Magritte. Zaira and Marsel came to collecting from very different backgrounds–Zaira from a family with a tradition as modern art collectors, Marsel with a curiosity stimulated by his profession as a textiles engineer–and they acquired works throughout their lives through a variety of encounters and opportunities. The Mis Collection makes no claim to chart the history of 20th century art, or concentrate on any specific period or movement. But |
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