Getty Buys 6 Drawings at Auction
Annibale Carracci, Study of a Tree , about 1600. J. Paul Getty Museum The Getty Museum bought six European drawings from the Feb. 4, 2026, auction of the Diane A. Nixon collection at Sotheby's, New York. Nixon, a former model for Emilio Pucci, was a trustee of the Morgan Library & Museum and vice-president of the non-profit publishing Master Drawings . Nixon's collection has had a considerable mystique since it was shown anonymously at the Morgan and the National Gallery of Art in 2007. The Getty bought the sale's second most expensive lot, an Annibale Carracci ink and black chalk Study of a Tree that went for $863,600. (Most expensive was a Mattia Preti that soared to $1.76 million, nearly six times the high estimate.) Getty curator Julian Brooks' post on the auction says that they were outbid on several drawings. Almost 16 inches high, the Carracci exemplifies the artist's empirical approach to nature. It's one of several Carracci drawin...
