124 拍卖珍贵艺术品以筹款捐赠联合国儿童基金会.pdfVIP

124 拍卖珍贵艺术品以筹款捐赠联合国儿童基金会 Valuable Art Auction will Benefit UNICEF Barbara Schoetzau New York 11 Sep 2001 02:55 UTC A 1)valuable collection of 20th century art is going on the block to benefit the United Nations Childrens Fund. Art experts at Christies, the 2)auction house that will handle the sale, expect the treasure 3)trove of modern art to bring in as much as $40 million. The collection was 4)amassed by Belgian businessman Rene Gaffe, an early 5)champion of modern art who died in 1968. Mr. Gaffes wife Jeanne 6)designated UNICEF as the 7)beneficiary of the sale of the paintings before she died in October. The collection contains works by many of the 8)dominant artists of the 20th century, including Picasso, Renoir, Braque, and Miro. Mr. Gaffe purchased most of the works directly from the artists or from 9)galleries when the art first went on the market. Consequently, Mark Porter, international managing director of Christies, says most of the works have not been seen since the 1920s and 1930s - seminal years in the development of modern art. That leaves us to believe that they will be 10)enormously sought after by collectors because they are completely fresh to the market, he said. No one has seen them before. The appearance on the market has come as a complete surprise to most of the collecting community and we are already experiencing enormous interest and desire to see the pictures. UNICEF will be the sole beneficiary of the sale, which is the largest gift UNICEF has ever received. Actress Susan Sarandon, a 11)goodwill 12)ambassador for UNICEF, says there is no more 13)compelling cause than the United Nations Childrens Fund. More than 10 million children die each year, mostly from preventable causes. We can change that, she said. 120 million school age children, more than half of them girls, are unable to obtain even an 14)elementary education and we can change that. 250 million children under the age