Postwar and Contemporary Art from Iowa Business Leaders to Be Sold at Christie’s Spring Sales

Works from the art collection of Iowa business leader and philanthropist John Pappajohn and his wife Mary will be offered as a group of highlights during Christie’s Spring sales in New York next month, the auction house announced Friday. The Pappajohns were a mainstay of ARTnews’s Top 200 collector list from 1998 to 2014. John passed away last year on April 26 at 94. Mary, aged 88, died in 2022.The collection, which is comprised of works by post-war and contemporary luminaries i