A collection of some well-known art works is to go on sale for the benefit of Israel in the plush Paris Georges V Hotel April 24, it was announced here this week. Paintings by Renoir and Courbet, a Delacrox watercolor, works by Arp and De Greuze and a sculpture by Max Ernst will be put on sale to the public. Some of the works have been offered personally by the artists who have fixed the prices themselves. One of these, a work by Marc Chagall, has already been sold to a collector for $200,000. The organizing committee includes the wife of Israeli Ambassador Asher Ben Natan and Mrs. Alix Rothschild.
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