The estate of the late collector Henry S. McNeil Jr. is bringing his significant collection of Minimalist art to auction at Christie's in New York this spring. The trove, assembled over decades and lived with in a Philadelphia townhouse, includes major works by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt, and is expected to fetch around $30 million.
The sale is notable not only for its high-value highlights, like a Judd stack estimated at $10-15 million, but for offering a rare, intimate view of a seminal collection in its domestic setting. It represents a generational shift, as McNeil's Gen-Z children are now stewarding the dispersal of the artworks they grew up with, providing a unique narrative of living with Minimalism as a warm, personal environment rather than a purely academic movement.