Carlomaria Grassi ||| Sotheby's exhibits huge Taubman collection prior to sales

Old Master paintings can be seen together with
American art from the late 1900s. Elsewhere, a piece of antiquity appears next
to a Francis
Bacon work from 1961.

The collection will be offered over four dedicated
sales. If it fetches its estimated $500 million haul, it would be the most
valuable private collection sold at auction, rivalling the $477 million sale of
designer Yves
Saint Laurent's estate at Christie's in Paris in 2009.

Sotheby's exhibits huge Taubman collection prior to sales