The Ron and Diane Disney Miller collection includes 40 lots and features paintings, drawings and works on paper and sculpture
Before she died in 2013 at the age of 79, Diane Disney Miller did all she could to document the life and achievements of her father, the man behind the world’s most famous mouse. As part of her efforts, she established the Walt Disney Family trust, a charity that benefits a number of organizations. This week, dozens of pieces that once hung in the San Francisco home of Disney Miller and her husband Ron will go under the hammer, in aid of this trust.
Leading the auction is a Richard Diebenkorn work from his Ocean Park series, which will be auctioned off on Nov. 13, in an evening sale of post-war and contemporary art. Diebenkorn’s "Ocean Park #108" is expected to fetch $7-$9 million. It’s perhaps the most coveted of the series he made in his studio in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica in 1978, which he initially began in the ‘60s.
Another highlight of the collection is realist Andrew Wyeth’s "Oliver’s Cap," which is expected to bring $3-$5 million. “With Wyeth being one of the great pictorial storytellers, painters, of his generation and of the 20th century, there’s a great mood and mystery within the scene he’s painted, where the implication is that the sitter in it is actually absent,” says White.
“The Thiebaud 'Mickey Mouse' has a deep resonance with the family for obvious reasons,” says White. “It’s such a perfect, special gem of a painting that conveys a sort of optimism of America. It's a picture that makes you happy. One of the great contributions of the Disney family legacy is that they bring joy to us. They have brought joy to generations and generations of people. The Thiebaud sums up the overall family ethos and what they have given to us.
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