Art by Josef Albers, Jean Dubuffet, Franz Kline and Arnulf Rainer from the estate of Maximilian Schell will come up at Christie’s in Amsterdam, London and Paris. The newly deceased Oscar winning Austrian actor, director, writer and producer Maximilian Schell was dedicated to the arts throughout his life. As a collector he avoided the fashionable in search of the timeless. Christie’s will offer the 45 works from the Maximilian Schell Estate across five sales during November and December 2014 in Amsterdam, London and Paris. The main part will be included in Christie’s Amsterdam Post-War and Contemporary Art evening and day sales on November 4 and 5, further works will be offered in the Amsterdam sales Old Masters and 19th Century Art – including Dutch impressionism on November 26 and Modern Art on December 16. Christie’s will auction two autographs from the Schell Estate in its November 25 sale of Books and Manuscripts and wo works in the Tribal Art sale on December 11 in Paris.
Dubuffet Courtesy Christies Images Ltd., 2014
Kline Courtesy Christies Images Ltd., 2014
Albers Courtesy Christies Images Ltd., 2014
Maximilian Schell in front of a picture of his most intimate film, My Sister Maria, 2002.Copyright Prounenfilm.