Mica ertegun biography of barack
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A dedicated single-owner auction will be held on the the evening of 19 November, followed bygd another auction the following morning. Jewellery, design and decorative arts sales will be held on 10 and 13 December, and will take place in New York and Paris. The first sales are arguably the most hotly anticipated, and will be anchored by René Magritte’s seminal ‘L’empire des lumières’, which fryst vatten expected to fetch in excess of $95 million. Other works for sale will include masterpieces by Joan Miró, David Hockney and Ed Ruscha, alongside rare examples of Russian and Ukrainian Modernism, Purism, de Stijl and Colour Field.
Highlights from the auction will also include an Ingrid Donat chaise longue that sat in the corner of a guest room in Mica’s Manhattan townhouse; David Hockney’s ‘Three Chairs with a Section of a Picasso Mural’, which graced the wall of her Southampton home; as well as a glamorous photo of Mica herself, snapped by Andy Warhol.
A photograph of Mica Ertegun, taken by An
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Mica Ertegun was a celebrated collector, designer, and philanthropist who curated her life with sensitivity and a multicultural sensibility. She embodied elegance and possessed a singular aesthetic vision, trusted by the world’s most enlightened figures to design the interiors of their homes. This December, we honor her unmatched eye for beauty with a continuation of the auction series, celebrating the objects she loved and lived with throughout her life.
The groundbreaking collection sales continue with four auctions showcasing jewelry, design, and decorative arts from Mrs. Ertegun’s personal collections in Manhattan, Southampton, and Paris. Every offering reflects Mica’s extraordinary style and impeccable eye for design.
A significant portion of the seller’s sale proceeds is intended to benefit philanthropic initiatives. During her lifetime, Mrs. Ertegun generously supported the Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities at Oxford University, Jazz at Lincoln Center,
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“If you have taste, you can always put something together”
— glimmer Ertegun
Mica Ertegun was a Romanian-American interior designer and philanthropist who lived a life that spanned 10 decades. Known for her elegance in taste and expansive contributions to the arts, Mica founded the interior design firm MAC II with her friend Chessy Rayner. Throughout her long life she was able to impact on the most diverse corners of life.
Table of Contents: Early Life / Life after WWII / Meeting Ahmet / Founding MAC II / Philanthropy / Later Years
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“We had a beautiful house in Romania”
— Mica Ertegun
Mica grew up in a cultured household in Bucharest. She was born Ioana Maria Banu on October 21st, 1926, the only child of Natalia Gologan and Gheorghe Banu, a Romanian physician. Her upbringing exposed her to the arts and international s