Art connoisseur leaves money to charity
Norwegian art collector Haaken Christensen, who died earlier this year, has left his entire fine art collection together with the majority of his personal estate, valued in total at £20m, to the humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières.
The bequest represents the largest single donation the French-based charity has ever received.
The 63 works to be offered at Sotheby’s are expected to realise a sum in the region of £10m and includes Picasso’s Tête de femme (Dora Maar), which is estimated to be worth between £3m to £5m.
This will be offered alongside four other important works by Picasso and paintings by Fernand Leger at a sale in London at the end of June.
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