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\n\tAnita and Poju Zabludowicz, two art collectors who regularly appear on the ARTnews<\/em> Top 200 Collectors list, are set to sell \u00a315 million ($20.1 million) at Christie\u2019s next month via an in-person auction in London on June 25 and an online sale.<\/p>\n \n\tThe top lot of the 106 works headed to auction is a Philip Guston painting. Titled Mirror Head<\/em> (1977), it comes to sale with a high estimate of \u00a35.5 million ($7.38 million). Also headed to auction are works by Beatriz Milhazes, Rose Wylie, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, Henry Taylor, and Charline von Heyl.<\/p>\n \n\tOnce one of the most visible collecting couples in Europe, the Zabludowiczes appear to have in recent years scaled back some of their operations, closing their private museum in London in 2023 after more than a decade and a half in operation. The museum said at the time that it would continue to run a permanent space on the Finnish island of Sarvisalo, and that the main focus was to loan out works rather than to show them at fixed locations.<\/p>\n \n\tThe museum shuttered as the Zabludowiczes continued to face pushback over their alleged ties to a pro-Israel lobbying group and military aircraft services company via the Tamares Group, a private equity firm where Poju Zabludowicz serves as chair and CEO. The controversy had already been brewing before Israel\u2019s war in Gaza began in late 2023, with a range of artists \u201cdeauthoring\u201d works held by the couple in 2021 in protest of what they described as the collectors\u2019 involvement in \u201cIsraeli-state-led apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBut in 2023, the dissent grew louder, leading a group of Finnish artists to boycott Helsinki\u2019s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, which had previously received money from the Zabludowiczes and which subsequently cut ties with the collectors. Then, later in the year, the Zabludowiczes publicly addressed Israel and Palestine for the first time.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe passionately support a Two-State Solution that guarantees the rights of Palestinians and Israelis to live and work side-by-side in peace,\u201d the collectors wrote, denouncing what they described as \u201cinnocent lives lost on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a statement to the Financial Times<\/em> Wednesday, a spokesperson for the family said that \u201cmost\u201d of the Tamares Group\u2019s investments \u201care in the USA, UK and Finland, with a small percentage in Israel,\u201d and that the firm has \u201cno investment in the West Bank or military-related interests.\u201d A Christie\u2019s spokesperson declined to comment to the Financial Times<\/em> on the controversy, which was not mentioned in the house\u2019s release.<\/p>\n \n\tIn that release, Anita Zabludowicz said in a statement, \u201cI feel incredibly proud to have arrived at this moment, where we can truly open up and share the collection with those who wish to continue its journey, giving other collectors and museums the opportunity to offer some of these works a new home and a new life. Art has no beginning and no ending \u2014 it is a story that continuously evolves. That is how I see the future: Then, Now, Next.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/anita-poju-zabludowicz-christies-sale-1234787552\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1243911216.jpg?w=1024″] Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, two art collectors who regularly appear on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, are set to sell \u00a315 million ($20.1 million) at Christie\u2019s next month via an in-person auction in London on June 25 and an online sale. 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