A Peter Max portrait of Mary Tyler Moore is expected to fetch $15,000 when it is sold next month in an auction of the US TV star's art collection.
The New York sale at the Doyle auction house on June 4 has more than 350 lots with stand-out items including two large-scale sculptures by Italian artist Mimmo Paladino, valued at around $70,000 each, and an Annie Leibovitz polaroid of the actress and her co-star Dick Van Dyke taken for Vanity Fair expected to fetch $6,000.
In 2018, Christie’s sold a Richard Diebenkorn painting for $22.5 million owned by Moore and her husband Robert Levine.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a sitcom set in the world of TV news, made her a huge star pulling in huge audiences and winning critical acclaim in the 1970s.
The actress, who died in 2017, won dozens of awards throughout her career including a Tony Award for her performance in the play Whose Life is It Anyway about a paralysed sculptor, in which she became the first woman to replace a man in a leading role on Broadway when she followed Tom Conti in the part.