More than 150 personal items and works of art that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg kept in her Washington residence and Supreme Court chambers are up for auction.
The Potomack Company auction house in Alexandria, Va., opened catalogs this month for the items, which include ceramics by Picasso and a caricature print of the widely admired justice, who died in 2020. Proceeds will benefit the Washington National Opera, whose concerts Justice Ginsburg frequently attended.
The Potomack Company said it would donate 10 percent of the seller’s commission to fellowships offered by the Women of Berkeley Law, a student group at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Justice Ginsburg was known for fighting for women’s rights for more than a half century.
The auction for Justice Ginsburg’s modern art collection will take place on April 27, followed by a session the next day with decorative arts and memento items from her Supreme Court chambers and residence in the Watergate complex in Washington.