Noortman art collection sold at Sothebys auction
Published December 19th, 2007
The collection of a celebrated Dutch art dealer went for 6.1 million euros at auction in Amsterdam, Sotheby’s announced Tuesday,double their original estimate.
“The paintings, furniture and other fine pieces attracted international attention,” Sotheby’s said, after a two-day sale of the private collection of Robert Noortman, who died in January.
Two items sold for 180,250 euros, a watercolour by Fernando Botero and an oil painting attributed to Pierre Paul Rubens.
The works come from the Chateau De Groote Mot, in the north of Belgium, where the dealer and his wife lived before moving to Maastricht in the Netherlands, and founding the Noortman gallery.
Noortman and his wife had already decided to sell the chateau and its contents, but the sale was brought forward after the collector’s death, at the age of 60, earlier this year.
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