{"id":163095,"date":"2015-10-28T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=163095"},"modified":"2015-10-28T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:55:38","slug":"sting-and-trudie-styler-to-auction-art-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/sting-and-trudie-styler-to-auction-art-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Sting and Trudie Styler to auction art collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
Musician Sting and wife Trudie Styler are selling more than 200 items from their art collection, previously housed in their former family home in London.<\/p>\n
Works by Matisse, Picasso, Gustav Klimt and Ben Nicholson will be offered at auction at Christie’s in February, as well as Sting’s Steinway piano.<\/p>\n
The auction house said the couple had collected the works “with passion and knowledge” over 20 years.<\/p>\n
One painting, Nicholson’s March 55 (amethyst) could fetch up to \u00a3500,000.<\/p>\n
The British abstract painter’s 1955 work previously hung in the music room at their house in Queen Anne’s Gate. It will be auctioned alongside Robert Mapplethorpe photographs, Matisse’s Jazz series and Picasso’s lithograph Le Corsage a Carreaux.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Prints by Georges Braque and Rene Magritte, as well as well as more contemporary artists such as Carsten Holler, will be auctioned alongside 20th century furniture and lighting by Post-War masters including Yves Klein.<\/p>\n Andy Waters, head of private collection sales for Christie’s London said the Queen Anne’s Gate home had “effortlessly combined luxury, rarity and colour”.<\/p>\n