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  "overview": "<p><a href=\"https://www.sothebys.com/en/series/magnum-opus-a-private-collection-of-exceptional-art-and-objects-through-the-ages\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Magnum Opus: A Private Collection of Exceptional Art and Objects Through the Ages</a> has been conceived as four distinct but interconnected chapters, each organized around a unifying theme rather than a traditional category framework, reflecting the deeply cross-disciplinary nature of the collection Itself.</p><p><br></p><p>ACT I: The Magnum Opus Evening Auction launches the series with a selection of the collection's exceptional masterworks, bringing together fine art, ancient sculpture, Islamic works of art and courtly carpets, furniture, and decorative arts in a single auction that mirrors the collector's instinct for dialogue across Disciplines.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Illustrating the scope of the collection, you have one of the Evening Auction’s most arresting pairings: a cuirassed marble torso of a Roman emperor, the only such example in private hands with an extensive documented provenance extending back more than two centuries, and a small, early print of Richard Avedon's celebrated portrait of Marilyn Monroe from 1957, one of the defining images of 20th century photography. Two icons of presence and power, separated by two millennia, united in a single Room.</p><p><br></p><p>RSVP to the live auction <a href=\"https://events.sothebys.com/magnumopusauctions\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. </p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>[specialist contact block omitted from the recorded example]</p>",
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