As the United States enters its last breath of summer on Labor Day weekend, Christie announced Saturday that it has received Robert F.
Christie’s Weis collection will represent 80 batches, with a valuation of over $180 million. It includes works from some of the most important art movements of the 20th century, from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism, and works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko hit the neighborhood.
The works will be distributed in multiple auctions, with 18 of them going to be sold in a single person, which will be conducted before the 20th century evening of the house, and the rest will be distributed between Christie’s Post-War and Modern Day sales and Modern Art Day sales.
“The collections of Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis are both deeply personal and historical, and can trace the evolution of modernism through top-notch examples through 20th-century icons,” Christie CEO Bonnie Brennan said in a statement. “Patiently assembled for more than 70 years, the series captures a rare sense of discovery – showing sophisticated connoisseurs, intellectual rigor, and the tasteful taste of the couple.”
Works to be provided include Picasso’s 1932 paintings La Lecture (Marie-Thérèse)estimates can be made in the US$40 million region upon request; Pictures and bouquets (têteocre)estimated to be between $15 million and $25 million; Mondrian’s Red and blue ingredients (1939-41), estimated at $20 million to $30 million; and Rothko’s 1958 No. 31 (Yellow Stripe)estimates should be made in the $50 million region.
“In the first half of the 20th century, follow the best modernism from Paris to New York and join the curiosity and discovery journey of the Weiss family,” Christie’s vice-chairman of 20th and 21st century art. “A rare Fauve Braque overlooking the dining table guides the masterpieces of Léger, Miró, Matisse and Picasso in a series of rooms and from there to Mondrian, Ernst, Gorky, Rothko, Rothko and Kline, which you will find in several times or for several times in the United States, mutual assistance, and the Internet, as well as the meticulous intelligence, and Suppers conseflect, and Suppers supperce”
Robert Weis died in 2015 at the age of 96 and is a former president of Weis Markets, whose father was founded in 1912 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Patricia Weis died in 2024 and is Robert’s 57-year-old wife. (Their son, Jonathan Weis, is now chairman, president and CEO of the supermarket chain).
According to a press release, the couple is “equal partners in the collection process” and will visit New York on weekends and in the summer between the UK and France, where they will accumulate their blue-chip set. They are also major philanthropists in the field of education, and he donated to Yale, Bard College, Franklin and Marshall College and Susquehanna University.
In a statement, the couple’s three children, Colleen, Jennifer and Jonathan Weis, said: “Growing up with our parents’ art collections has brought us great joy and a lifelong interest and passion for art among the three of us. It has defined our family experience and we have been lucky enough to live in these wonderful things. We hope they can be inspired by their interests.
