On May 16, Sotheby’s wrapped up its sale of an art collection that was put together by Harry and Linda Macklowe over the course of their 60-year marriage.

The total take: $922.2 million. That made it, in absolute terms, the most valuable collection ever sold at auction, topping the Rockefeller Collection that sold four years ago at Christie’s for $835.1 million. But what I like best about it is the fact that this amazing collection was put together over many decades by two people that, whatever else their differences, found a lasting and valuable marital bond in collecting art!

Half of the pieces on the auction block that night sold for more than their high estimate. The top lot was a late Mark Rothko work, Untitled (1960), which sold for $48 million.

(Source: the Robb Report)