'Almost Mythical' Private Art Collection May Sell For Half a Billion Dollars

Twelve Impressionist and modern masterpieces from the collection of the Argentinian collector Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier, who died in 2020, are heading to auction on 18 November in New York.

After at least five decades hidden away, these spectacular works of art are expected to fetch around $500m in total, and have just gone on display at Sotheby’s in London before being flown to Taipei, then Hong Kong and Paris before the auction in NYC.

Only Good News Daily • Oct 2, 2026

'Almost Mythical' Private Art Collection May Sell For Half a Billion Dollars | OGN Daily

"For decades the Blaquier-Arrieta collection has been the stuff of legend: whispered about, kept from public view, it has attained an almost mythical status in the art world."

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