Israel Museum. Sale expected to bring more than $17 million
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Sotheby's to sell Israel Museum works
Rene Magritte, Camille Pissarro and Georges Braque among artists whose works will sold by New York auction house
Sotheby's auction house in New York will be selling works from the Israel Museum this fall.
The auction house said Friday that Rene Magritte, Camille Pissarro and Georges Braque are among the artists whose works will be sold during a series of auctions in November and December 1.
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'The Return of Tobias,' a 1934 painting by German Jewish artist Max Liebermann, back in Berlin decades after being looted from Jewish museum in Nazi Germany
Additional works will be offered in London in November and February. The total is expected to bring more than $17 million.
Among the highlights is Magritte's "The Straight Road." Its pre-sale estimate is up to $3.5 million.
Israel Museum Director James Snyder said in a statement that the sale will eliminate redundancies in its collection and generate funds for future acquisitions.
The Jerusalem museum completed a three-year renewal project in 2010 that included the re-evaluation of its encyclopedic collection.
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