Property From The General Electric Company Corporate Art Collection

The General Electric Company Corporate Art Collection was founded in the early 1970’s with the move to GE’s new world headquarters in Fairfield, CT. From the outset the main purpose of the art collection was to enrich the GE work environment. The artwork within the collection was of a wide aesthetic spectrum, while still being appropriate for a public and corporate setting, with a strong focus on quality & accessibility. The visual styles range from gestural abstraction, pastoral landscapes, to contemporary photography. These various genres were presented in a full variety of mediums; paintings, prints, photography, works on paper and sculptures. Many of those artworks are now available to the public through these sales courtesy of EBTH.

At its height, the GE Collection contained over 4,000 objects. It included works by contemporary master such as Robert Motherwell, Joan Mitchell, David Hockney, Helen Frankenthaler, Warhol & Basquiat, Jasper Johns and many others. The artworks were installed across General Electric’s corporate offices, such 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC, their sixty-acre campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, the renowned Management training center in Crontonville, NY, as well as international locations such as London, Munich & Bangalore. As part of the corporate art mission, key pieces were also exhibited for public viewing in the Corporate Galleries and loaned to various museums.

When the General Electric Company began the move of their world headquarters to Boston in 2016, the decision was made to sell the corporate art collection in a private transaction.

This curated sale of property from the General Electric Company Corporate Art Collection is one of a series of sales EBTH will be conducting in 2022. The art is professionally & archivally framed with full provenance attached to most works, offering a unique acquisition opportunity.