The Collection of Toto & Jim Fisher
Sale Overview
Christie’s is honored to present a private selling exhibition featuring works from The Collection of Toto & Jim Fisher.
Edith ‘Toto’ Fisher and her husband Jim were pillars of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania arts community. In parallel with their passionate support of local art organizations, including the Carnegie Museum of Art and The Andy Warhol Museum, the Fishers thoughtfully assembled an impressive Modern American Art collection focusing on paintings and sculptures of the early 20th Century. The most important uniting factor is the high quality of each work. The best of Precisionism is represented with an intricate drawing by Charles Sheeler of the artist’s photography studio and a striking industrial painting by Ralston Crawford. Peter Blume’s The Bridge transforms the New York cityscape into a surrealist vision. Important early works by Arthur Dove and Patrick Henry Bruce hang alongside a meditative late-career Marsden Hartley. Other artists represented include Hans Hofmann, Gaston Lachaise, Luigi Lucioni, David Smith and John Storrs. As Toto Fisher described, “The idea is not to buy a painting by a particular artist but a significant work of art…The collection is very eclectic but there is a relationship…The art has a sense of timelessness and beauty.”
The Collection will be on view at Christie’s Rockefeller Center from 10-17 April as part of Modern New York Week and available thereafter by appointment.
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