Innovacom. Art Moves Africa: A PROPOS D’AMA. Robert Devereux donates £4m of art collection to set up African charity. Robert Devereux, a former partner in the Virgin empire and Richard Branson's brother-in-law, is to sell a large part of his collection of British postwar art and use the expected £4m proceeds to set up a charity supporting artists in Africa.
The multimillionaire is selling 329 paintings, sculptures and prints by leading names including Frank Auerbach, Anthony Caro and Lucian Freud. Sotheby's, which is waiving its seller's commission, described the number of artworks donated as unprecedented for a charity auction. Devereux's decision to part with two-thirds of a cherished collection that he has built up over 30 years was inspired partly by a Harare artist whose wife had to travel 26 hours to buy oils for him.
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