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Bunny Mellon

Bunny Mellon

Fine Art

Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon, the horticulturist and tastemaker. Her estate sold at Sotheby's New York in November 2014 across several sessions totalling about $218m, the Masterworks evening alone making $158.7m.

Realized at sale$39.9M
Estimated today modeled~$41M
+3%
Modeled value over timemodeled

Realized price carried forward by ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price trend for each lot’s category.

A modeled market-level estimate, not an appraisal. Individual pieces vary.

Documented sales

Mark Rothko, “Untitled” (1970)
Mark Rothko, “Untitled” (1970) Confirmed
Sotheby's·Masterworks: Property from the Collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon, New York · Nov 10, 2014
Top lot of the white-glove Masterworks evening sale, against a $15–20m estimate.
artnet News Image: Sotheby's
Realized$39,925,000

“Estimated today” is a modeled figure, not an appraisal: each realized price is adjusted by the change in ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price level for its category (the median of comparable high-value lots, from the sale year to the present). It is a market-level estimate; individual pieces vary, and categories without enough comparable high-value data are shown as insufficient to estimate.

Notable historical collection. The realized figures are public auction results, from the dates shown. “Estimated today” and the value chart are modeled market estimates, not a live valuation or appraisal, and not a current holding.

Portrait source: Charleston Library Society.