Living Gracefully Highlights from the Estate of Helen Elliot Scott of Philadelphia

Freeman’s I Hindman is proud to present highlights from the estate of Helen Elliot Scott this spring season.

The suite of sales is led by a group of works in our Impressionist and Modern Art auction on the 30th of April in Philadelphia, including two works by Spanish female surrealist Olga Sacharoff (La Chasse, $20,000 - 30,000 and Fleurs sur une Table, $6,000 - 8,000). Jewelry, including a sapphire and diamond ring and Tiffany & Co., mother-of-pearl, black onyx, and gold bangle bracelet, will be offered in the New York Important Jewelry auction on 18 June.

 

Born in Boston in 1928, Helen (Gay) Scott, nee Elliot, was a pianist, piano teacher, mother of three, grandmother of seven, and a shining example of how to live gracefully. She studied piano as a child at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, and resumed her piano studies as an adult at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music while living in London from 1969 to 1973 where her husband was special assistant to the American ambassador to the Court of St. James, Walter Annenberg. Married for 42 years to Robert Montgomery Scott of Wayne, PA, who served as President and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1982-1996, Helen also served on the board of the Curtis Institute of Music, taught for several decades at the Settlement Music School, and continued to teach privately into her nineties. She was a loyal alumna of the Shady Hill School and a graduate of the Foxcroft School and Radcliffe College.

Works of art, Americana, and furnishings from her home in Wayne, PA, will feature in our Americana auctions in Philadelphia this fall season.

Fine Art Inquiries: [email protected]
Jewelry Inquiries: [email protected]

Fine Art Viewing: April 21–26, 28;
Jewelry Viewing: June 12 - 17 32 East 67th Street, New York, NY