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Quirky Collector’s Hoarded Art Could Fetch $20 Million
A collection of illustration art that was tucked away in storage rooms and in a sprawling warehouse goes on sale in a series of auctions by a Texas gallery this week and could fetch $20 million.
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DALLAS (July 14, 2009)--The incredible illustration art collection of Charles Martignette has been tucked away in storage rooms and a sprawling warehouse and now a Texas-based auction company is preparing for an expected $20 million sale.
Thousands of pieces of art from scantily clad pinup girls to wholesome works by Norman Rockwell will come out of the dust.
Martignette's roughly 4,300 pieces of art will be up for bidding during a series of auctions at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas beginning Wednesday.
The sale comes just more than a year after he died at age 57.
Among the highest valued pieces is Joseph Christian Leyendecker's oil painting of a soldier recounting his war story for two children.
It was used as a Saturday Evening Post cover in 1919, and is expected to sell for $50,000 to $70,000.
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