The $100 Million Collection of Ted and Ruth Baum Can Soon Be Yours

Sotheby’s will offer the collection of cable television magnate Ted Baum and his wife, interior designer Ruth Baum, with the whole estimated to total in excess of $100 million. The collection includes works by leading American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Ed Ruscha, Mark Rothko, and Tom Wesselmann, and major European figures including Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and Piero Manzoni. The group is led by a $10–15 million Rothko painting on paper and a…