Chicago commodities trader Alan Press and his wife Dorothy collected artists like Philip Gust and Ed Ruscha in depth. Their $50 million collection will be sold at Christie's in May, 2023
Works from Philip Guston’s late period have been making rapid progress on the masterpiece market for several years now. Six of the artist’s top ten prices come from works made after he abandoned Abstract Expressionism in favor of the controversial—and highly personal—figurative vocabulary of his works from the 1970s.