{"id":73999,"date":"2025-10-14T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73999\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:26:07","slug":"christies-will-sell-works-from-bill-and-dorothy-fisher-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73999\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie’s Will Sell Works From Bill and Dorothy Fisher Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChristie\u2019s has been consign to sell works of Impressionism from the Bill and Dorothy Fisher Collection during its marquee auctions in November. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe consignment from the Fisher Governor Foundation includes works by Paul Signac<\/a>, Camille Pissarro<\/a>, Eug\u00e8ne Boudin, Pierre Bonnard<\/a>, Alfred Sisley, and Henri Matisse<\/a>, and has a total estimate \u201cin excess of $10 million.\u201d Proceeds from the sale will support \u201clocal cultural enrichment in the community\u201d of Marshalltown, Iowa, including the Marshalltown Arts & Civic Center.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBill and Dorothy Fisher and the Fisher family have demonstrated their love for and commitment to their hometown of Marshalltown for decades, through their generosity and as exemplars of the importance of giving back to one\u2019s community,\u201d Fisher Governor Foundation board member David Tank said in a press statement. \u201cWe are excited to work alongside Christie\u2019s team to recognize and honor this legacy and in a way that will enable us to perpetuate their good work and vision for Marshalltown for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe top lot is Paul Signac\u2019s L\u2019Odet \u00e0 Quimper (1922-1923), which carries an estimate of $6 million to $9 million. The artist was an \u201centhusiastic amateur sailor\u201d and the Pointillist work was painted in the ancient French medieval town of Quimper in Brittany. Notably, L\u2019Odet \u00e0 Quimper has been in the collection of Bill and Dorothy Fisher for more than sixty years.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe canvas is a triumphant demonstration, impressively scaled with rich color and detail, of the artist\u2019s unmatched coloristic abilities, employing rich hues of emerald and sapphire interspersed with warm jewel-tones capturing the magnificent light,\u201d Imogen Kerr, Christie\u2019s co-head of the 20th century evening sale, said in a press statement. \u201cWe are truly thrilled to present it to the market this fall, particularly for such a benevolent and worthy cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWorks from the collection will be sold as part of Christie\u2019s 20th Century Evening Sale on November 17 as well as its day sales for Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper on November 18. A press release from the auction house noted \u201cthe majority of the works held in the Fisher collection\u201d were for more than five decades.<\/p>\n

\n\tBill Fisher served as president of the Fisher Governor Company, which designed, manufactured, and supplied control valves and regulators to multiple industries. Bill and his wife Dorothy supported the arts in both his hometown of Marshalltown and across the US. The couple\u2019s patronage included the creation and curation of \u201can impressive collection of Impressionistic and Post-Impressionistic art\u201d that became known as the Fisher Art Collection, now featured in a dedicated museum at the Marshalltown Arts & Civic Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christie\u2019s has been consign to sell works of Impressionism from the Bill and Dorothy Fisher Collection during its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37058,7123,146,52540,85,46,52541,52542],"class_list":["post-73999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-camille-pissarro","tag-christies","tag-entertainment","tag-henri-matisse","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-paul-signac","tag-pierre-bonnard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}