Richard Attenborough Art Collection Estimated at $3.3 Million

These days, most individuals or companies selling their art are doing so because of unfortunate economic circumstances. So it is refreshing to read in The Guardian that the famed actor and director Richard Attenborough and his wife will be selling off part of their art collection because they have run out of room on their walls. Sotheby’s will handle the sale, which includes works by LS Lowry, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Christopher Wood, among others. Sale estimates have been set at over $3.3 million. On the topic of Attenborough and his wife culling their art collection, James Rawlin, Sotheby’s head of 20th-century British art, believes it won’t be long until the couple has filled the wall space. “The real collectors just can’t give up: they try, but then they see something and they have to have it.”

via Attenborough art clearout set to fetch £2m | Art and design | guardian.co.uk.