As the US heads into Labor Day weekend for the ultimate gasps of summer time, Christie’s introduced on Saturday that it had secured the gathering of Robert F. Weis and Patricia G. Ross Weis for its marquee November gross sales in New York, marking one of many first main consignments for the autumn gross sales.
The Weis assortment at Christie’s will signify 80 tons and has a valuation in extra of $180 million. It consists of works from a few of the Twentieth century’s most vital artwork actions, from Cubism to Summary Expressionism, with works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Mark Rothko hitting the block.
The works can be cut up throughout a number of auctions, with 18 going to a single-owner sale that may precede the home’s Twentieth-century night sale, and the remaining works being divided between Christie’s postwar and up to date day sale and its trendy artwork day sale.
“The gathering of Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis is each deeply private and instilled with historic significance, tracing the evolution of modernism by way of best-in-class examples by Twentieth-century icons,” Christie’s CEO Bonnie Brennan stated in a press release. “Patiently assembled over greater than seventy years, the gathering captures a uncommon sense of discovery—demonstrating refined connoisseurship, mental rigor, and the couple’s richly diversified tastes.”
Among the many works that can be on provide are Picasso’s 1932 portray La lecture (Marie-Thérèse), which carries an estimate upon request within the area of $40 million; Matisse’s Determine et bouquet (Tête ocre), with an estimate between $15 million and $25 million; Mondrian’s Composition with Pink and Blue (1939–41), with an estimate of $20 million–$30 million; and Rothko’s 1958 No. 31 (Yellow Stripe), with an estimate upon request within the area of $50 million.
“To expertise the Weis house was to comply with the most effective of modernism from Paris to New York within the first half of the Twentieth century and to affix Mr. and Mrs. Weis on their household’s seventy-year journey of curiosity and discovery,” Max Carter, Christie’s vice chairman of Twentieth- and Twenty first-century artwork, stated in a press release. “A uncommon Fauve Braque overlooking the eating desk led within the sequence of rooms past to the interwar masterpieces of Léger, Miró, Matisse, and Picasso and from there to Mondrian, Ernst, Gorky, Rothko, and Kline in America. In few collections of its time or since will you discover such thoughtfulness, interconnection, and superlative high quality.”
Robert Weis, who died in 2015 on the age of 96, was the previous chairman of Weis Markets, which his father had based in 1912 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Patricia Weis, who died in 2024, was Robert’s spouse of 57 years. (Their son, Jonathan Weis, is now the grocery store chain’s chairman, president, and chief government.)
Based on a launch, the couple had been “equal companions within the gathering course of” and would go to New York on the weekends and the UK and France in the course of the summers wherein they’d amass their blue-chip assortment. They had been additionally main philanthropists in schooling, having donated to Yale College, Bard Faculty, Franklin & Marshall Faculty, and Susquehanna College.
In a press release, the couple’s three kids, Colleen, Jennifer, and Jonathan Weis, stated, “Rising up with our dad and mom’ artwork assortment has introduced us nice pleasure and created a lifelong curiosity and keenness for artwork within the three of us. It has outlined our household expertise, and we now have been fortunate to reside amongst these stunning issues. Our stewardship of them will move to others who we hope can be equally impressed by the wonder and depth of feeling that the gathering evokes.”
