2 Rothko 絵s の中で Mellon auction items

NEW YORK (AP) ― Two 示す Rothko 絵s are の中で the 反対するs that will be auctioned in the 落ちる from the 広い地所 of Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a 公式文書,認めるd horticulturist, philanthropist and 相続人 to the Listerine fortune, Sotheby's 発表するd Friday.

The 作品, which have been in the Mellon collection for more than 40 years, will be 申し込む/申し出d on Nov. 10. "Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange)," painted in 1955, could bring up to $30 million; "Untitled" from 1970 is 概算の to sell for up to $20 million.

The auction house on Friday 詳細(に述べる)d some of the 2,000 items, 含むing 宝石類 and furniture, that will be sold in a 一連の auctions that could realize a total of more than $100 million.

の中で the 宝石類 is a Fancy Vivid Blue pear-形態/調整d diamond 概算の to bring $10 million to $15 million on Nov. 20. Furniture and other home 内部の items will be sold Nov. 21-23.

Proceeds will 利益 The Gerard B. Lambert 創立/基礎, which supports The Oak Spring Garden Library in Upperville, Virginia. The library houses Mellon's collection of rare 調書をとる/予約するs, manuscripts and 作品 of art 関係のある to landscape design, horticulture and natural history.

Mellon, who died in March at 103, was the 未亡人 of philanthropist Paul Mellon. The 反対するs come from the couple's homes in the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs and abroad. Their 2,000-acre Upperville, Virginia, farm went on the market last month for $70 million.

Her grandfather Jordan W. Lambert created Listerine, and her father, Gerald Lambert, built a company that made everything from Dentyne to Schick かみそりs. Pa ul Mellon had his own fortune, 相続するd from his Pittsburgh industrialist father and built on holdings in banking, coal, 鉄道/強行採決するs, steel and アルミ.

Bunny Mellon was a self-taught botanist and の近くに friend of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In 1961, she redesigned the White House Rose Garden and later created another White House garden that was 指名するd for Kennedy after her death.

A 私的な person, Mellon was thrust in the スポットライト when John Edwards was 起訴するd in 2011 for using what 検察官,検事s 申し立てられた/疑わしい was (選挙などの)運動をする money, 含むing $750,000 from Mellon, to hide his mistress during his 2008 大統領の 企て,努力,提案. He was later acquitted. Mellon was never (刑事)被告 of breaking any 法律s.

During their lifetimes, the Mellons 寄付するd hundreds of important artworks to museums, 含むing the 国家の Gallery of Arts. The Washington, D.C., museum was 設立するd in 1937 by Paul Mellon's father, Andrew Mellon.

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