DE LA CRUZ COLLECTION CLOSED ITS DOORS WITH PIECES HEADING TO AUCTION
The Cuban-born, Miami-based art collector and philanthropist Rosa de la Cruz’s collection will be sold over a series of auctions starting on May 2024.
The private museum of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz has closed, after philanthropist and art collector Rosa de la Cruz died in February 2024 at her Key Biscayne home at the age of 81. On the first Saturday in March, hundreds of people came to the de la Cruz Collection in Miami to attend a memorial service for its founder. That would be the last time the celebrated institution gathered a public event.
The de la Cruz collection is now closed, with its precious pieces heading to auction, and the building likely to be at sale soon, too. Rosa, with her husband Carlos, had opened the 30,000-square-foot museum in Miami to display their contemporary art collection, which numbers approximately 1,000 works. The closure of the collection and the institution marks a before and after at the Miami art scene.
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Rosa de la Cruz Collection.
The collection will likely be sold by the auction house over several sales for an estimated total of $30 million, with pieces ranging from $5,000 on the low end to $5 million on the high end.
Among the standout artists in the de la Cruz collection are artists like Wade Guyton, Albert Oehlen, Su Su and Christina Quarles. Rosa de la Cruz encouraged and placed emerging artists at the Miami Art Scene in the last decade. Their influence in the art world grew as they supported artists and galleries. They paid for high school students to see art in Europe and New York, and created local jobs through their museum.
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