"The paintings were once housed in the Manhattan studio of Orrin Riley, an art conservator who started the conservation department at the Guggenheim Museum and later ran his own restoration business â where he restored several de Koonings.
After Rileyâs death in 1986, his partner, Susanne Schnitzer, took over the business. Schnitzer was killed by a garbage truck as she crossed a Midtown street in 2009.
The executors of her estate â friends from New Jersey â were in charge of disposing of the art left behind. They scrambled to contact as many of the paintingsâ owners as they could find but were still left with hundreds of works, Killen said.
Not knowing what they had â they thought they merely had de Kooning prints â and burdened by monthly storage fees, they decided to get what they could for the contents of the locker and called auction houses looking for buyers.
Dette synes jeg var utrolig spennende og av en eller annen grunn var bildet veldig tiltalende.
Til det gÄr inflasjon i dette,og det kommer det til Ä gjÞre, tror jeg det dette har sin plass. Tror ogsÄ bildet kommer til Ä gÄ skyhÞyt over prisantydning som det fÞrste i sitt slag pÄ auksjon - det fÞles iallefall viktig.
Her stÄr litt om nyÄpningen av galleriet mitt hvor rammemaker Roald Sundal og jeg har flyttet sammen. Er laget flere artikler om oss, men resten mÄ man betale for Ä se. Nettsiden jeg linker til er en uavhengig lokal nettavis fra Stord. HÄper det kan vÊre interessant. http://www.stord24.no/gallerist-og-rammemakar-gar-saman-i-nytt-lokale-i-borggata/
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