Post-Impressionist works are included, apparently to make the event bigger and more glamorous.
While bidding on many Impressionist and post-Impressionist works was thin, some prices were strong.
Goetz and his wife also were major investors in art, acquiring a significant collection of impressionist and post-impressionist works.
The raids ended a seven-week search for the paintings, among Italy's most valuable post-Impressionist works.
It includes some early post-impressionist works as well as some Fauve-inspired canvases, followed by a brief cubist phase in 1913-14.
He said that the post-Impressionist works by the Vietnamese artist Le Pho, who died in 2001, were now auctioning for around $300,000.
This former railway station houses a superb collection of French Impressionist and post-Impressionist works, making it a must-see for any art lover.
About half the works are French, and the installation begins as always with a gallery of post-Impressionist works dominated by Cézanne's "Bather."
French impressionist and post-impressionist works including Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From?
And their belief that France was the world capital of art was reinforced when American collectors began snapping up Impressionist and post-Impressionist works.