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RAPAPORT... Sotheby’s New York will auction jewels from the collections of Estée Lauder and Evelyn H. Lauder as part of its magnificent jewels sale on December 9, 2014. Thirty-three pieces from the collection of Evelyn will be sold to benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation®, an organization that she founded and championed, while 11 pieces from the collection of Estée will be sold to benefit the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation®. Sotheby’s previously auctioned jewels from these collections in December 2012 and 2013 to benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Pieces offered this December include designs by Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, David Webb, Buccellati and Oscar Heyman & Brothers and are led by a rare and iconic tutti frutti bracelet, circa 1928, by Cartier with a presale estimate of between $750,000 and $1 million. A group of wearable evening and daytime jewels, with presale estimates under $20,000, complements the selection of more formal pieces. Leonard A. Lauder, the chairman emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., said, “My family and I are excited to partner with Sotheby’s on this special auction. Each piece of jewelry is unique and was designed to be timeless. My mother, Estée, and my dear wife, Evelyn, would be thrilled and honored that these much loved items of theirs are being sold to raise funds for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation. Our family’s goal has been, and continues to be, to help make those diseases a thing of the past.”
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