Knoedler & Company, which closed last year after 135 years of business, will auction off a portion of its holdings at Doyle Auction House. The 34-lot sale will take place Nov. 13. The top lots include work by Michael Goldberg, Helen Frankenthaller, Conrad Marca-Relli and Robert Rauschenberg, all estimated in the range of $150,000 to $200,000.
Given the recent allegations that fake works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell were being sold through Knoedler before its closing, Harold Porcher, the vice president and director of modern and contemporary art at Doyle, said in a phone interview that the sale only includes work by artists “that are not part of the controversy.”
Read More