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American landscape art from Ted Turner's collection to fund conservation at January auction

2026-11-12

Illustrative archive photograph of Yosemite Valley, taken in July 2023. Not a painting, auction lot, Turner property or view of the exhibition.

About 20 American landscape paintings from Ted Turner's collection will be offered at Christie's in New York on January 20, 2027, with proceeds benefiting the Turner Foundation. The auction house announced the sale on November 11 and lists a 5pm Eastern Standard Time start. Its roughly US$20 million total estimate is a pre-sale valuation, not money already raised for conservation.

The collection consists of works by Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran. Christie's identifies Bierstadt's Yosemite Valley and Moran's The Inner Gorge, Grand Canyon as leading lots, each estimated at US$4 million to US$6 million. The estimates indicate the auction house's expectations; the eventual bidding results could differ, and the sale is still in the future.

The auction links Turner's collecting with the environmental work supported by his family foundation. In a statement released by Christie's, the family said the paintings reflected his attachment to nature and that selling them would help continue his conservation work. That describes the intended beneficiary, rather than a new allocation to a named environmental project.

Highlights are scheduled to be shown at Rockefeller Plaza from November 7 to 20, followed by an in-person preview from January 15 to 19 ahead of the auction. Christie's says a selection of Turner's personal effects will be on view only during the January preview. The landscape photograph accompanying this report is an illustrative archive view of Yosemite, not one of the paintings being sold.

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