ING auctions art for UNICEF: update

On 16 November last year, ING Art Management began its auction on eBay of 2500 graphic art works from the ING Collection. As sales continue, approximately 50 works of art are going under the virtual hammer each week, with proceeds to Chances for Children and UNICEF. Here we give an update on the auction to date and offer information on how to join in.

Every Sunday night at around 9 p.m., a new selection of ING art is published, via the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN), to the large audience of popular auction site, eBay. The beneficiary of the proceeds of these sales is ING Chances for Children, the worldwide social development programme of ING that focuses on education for children. In addition to local ING initiatives, ING Chances for Children supports UNICEF in school projects in Brazil, Ethiopia and India.

ING has been collecting Dutch contemporary figurative art 1974. Thirty years later, the Collection consists of more than 25,000 works of art. Now, however, some of these no longer fit into the collection, perhaps because the items or the artists involved are overrepresented in the collection or the art works are not sufficiently representative.

You can access the auction here: www.museumveiling.nl and: www.haaleenstukjemuseuminhuis.nl. A complete list of the artists of whom the artworks will be auctioned, are available on the internet (www.ingartcollection.com). Unfortunately, the weekly selection of works of art cannot be requested in advance. For more information, go to: www.ingartcollection.com and www.icn.nl.