Works by Durer and Rembrandt are among the last objects being sold from one of the great - and most eclectic - private collections of recent years.
A series of sales at Sotheby's in London over the next few months will see pieces collected over decades by Stanley Seeger and his partner, Christoper Cone, go under the hammer.
Seeger, who died in 2011, collected and then sold work by Francis Bacon and Joan Miro during his lifetime as well as 88 Picassos in a memorable sale in 1993.
The Durer engraving, valued at around $33,600, and the Rembrandt etching, valued at $8,000, will be overshadowed by objects from their personal library including a draft work by Beethoven expected to sell for $268,000.
Sotheby’s David Macdonald said every lot was a reminder "that a great collection also represents a way of living" which valued "scholarship without solemnity and treasures chosen as much for joy as for importance".