O n 13 November, Sotheby’s will begin the marquee New York auction week with a sale of Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from one of the great American collections: 168꧒开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Collection of Edwin and Cherie Silver.
Beginning in the 1960s, the Silvers assembled an exceptional collection of sculpture in their modernist Los Angeles home. During the g♔olden age of American post-war collecting in these categories, they were able to acquire sculptures of a caliber which are rarely available on the market today. The sale of these works now represents a rare opportuni🌟ty for today’s collectors.
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Ed and Cherie Silver’s collection is well-known to lovers of African and Pre-Columbian Art throughꦓ their generous loans to many of the most important museum exhibitions of the past several decades. Works from the Silver Collection have been shown at tꦓhe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and the Center for African Art, New York.
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