Pre-auction show of the Rockefeller collection will be held in Hong Kong, London and Los Angeles

Paintings by artists Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet from the collection of art by Peggy and David Rockefeller will be auctioned at the Christie's auction house in the spring of 2018. Before selling the paintings will be presented at exhibitions in Hong Kong, London and Los Angeles.

According to the will of the Rockefellers, all proceeds from the sale will be transferred to the charities chosen by them. According to the media, the auction will be unprecedented among the charity auctions that have ever been held.

In Christie's the appearance on the market of the Rockefeller collection is called the "sale of the century". Preliminary assessment of the collection - 500 million dollars.

The pearl of the collection put up for sale is considered to be the canvas of the "pink period" by Picasso "Naked girl with a basket of flowers," her cost is estimated at $ 70 million.

In addition, the auction will feature paintings by French artists Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Edouard Manet.

The work of Henri Matisse "Recumbent odalisque with magnolias" in 1923 has every chance to establish a new price record for the artist's works. Estimate picture - about $ 50 million, and the past price record for Matisse, $ 39.5 million.

Claude Monet's works are nice: "Water Lilies" from the late and incredibly popular series of the public and a textbook for the impressionism urban landscape "The building of the Saint-Lazare station illuminated by the sun" in 1877.

Earlier in November, at Christie's auction in New York, Leonardo Da Vinci's Savior of the World was sold for $ 450 million, which was a record for the works ever sold at auctions.