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New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver, left, greets Mets president Lorinda de Roulet with a handshake as chairman of the board M. Donald Grant looks on prior to a clubhouse meeting in New York, May 14, 1977. The meeting took place before a game with the Los Angeles Dodgers.\u00a0 Credit: AP\/Harry Harris<\/p>\n
Joan Whitney Payson\u00a0helped found the Mets in 1962 after failing to keep the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds. De Roulet also served as president of the team until the family sold their shares in 1980. The family attempted to hold a stake in the team in a partnership with Islanders owner John Pickett before the sale fell through and the team was sold to Picket with Fred Wilpon and Doubleday and Co.<\/p>\n
The painting is now valued at between $25 to $35 million, Carter said. The work will be on display at Christie\u2019s gallery at Rockefeller Center. The Whitney family\u00a0previously sold another Renoir\u00a0painting, the “Bal du Moulin de la Galette” \u00a0in 1990 for $78 million.<\/p>\n
The Whitney family is also auctioning other pieces of their collection including art by Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Winslow Homer, Alfred Sisley and Andrew Wyeth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The family art was kept at the Manhasset estate\u00a0and previously included a Picasso that hung above the family living room. The Picasso hung above a Nerf dart board that children would shoot foam missiles in the house, Bullock said.<\/p>\n
De Roulet sold the Picasso to help start the Patrina Foundation, to help support nonprofits that support young girls and women.\u00a0<\/p>\n
De Roulet’s parents donated 15 acres of their\u00a0estate in 1949 to establish North Shore University Hospital and De Roulet continued to support the hospital.<\/p>\n
Bullock\u00a0said the art collection was part of her childhood and she is becoming nostalgic looking back at the collection.<\/p>\n
The 500-acre family estate, known as Greentree, was bought by Payne Whitney in 1904. The family never left Long Island, Bullock said, except when Vincent de Roulet served as an ambassador for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.<\/p>\n
“I recognize the fact that I was lucky enough to have grown up with this collection,” Bullock said. “I think more later in life, perhaps after grandma passed, that we really recognized how amazing it was.”<\/p>\n
Bullock said her mother loved Long Island, including boating from Long Island to Florida and Maine. She said de Roulet was also committed to the Nassau County Art Museum, including several paintings she lent the museum, such as her prized Degas painting, also up for auction, “Children and Ponies in a Park.”<\/p>\n
“She was committed to Long Island and a New Yorker through and through,” Bullock said. <\/p>\n
Bullock said she hopes the art work goes to a good home, whether it be a private collector or a public institution. She said she is keeping a few of her favorite paintings.<\/p>\n
“I’m really hoping she finds a really happy home somebody that really, really enjoys her,” Bullock said of the Renoir.<\/p>\n
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\n\tJohn Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Renoir masterpiece\u00a0that hung in the Whitney family\u2019s Manhasset home for nearly a century, is set to go…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[54920,232,8015,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-212390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-li-history","tag-lifestyle","tag-nassau","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}