Her untimely death in the last days of the Trump administration only further consolidated her status as a symbolic figure of politically liberal America: As a Supreme Court judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who lived to the age of 87 despite recurring cancer, stood up for values ​​to the very end , which shaped her professional career – namely equal rights for all, regardless of their gender.

"RBG" entered pop culture as a feminist icon, tough, witty, incorruptible and with an unmistakable style: a star.

The interest in her bequeathed library, which was auctioned off at Bonhams, was correspondingly high.

The auction house turned over 2.3 million dollars at the auction of around a thousand legal and literary volumes.

The auction house The Potomack Company is now calling up the - much more modest - art collection of the judge, who died in 2020, for the benefit of the Washington National Opera.

Artworks, home furnishings and memorabilia will be up for sale in two online auctions ending April 27 and 28.

The attraction of the 162 lots lies in what they reveal about the former owner: for example that she loved Picasso, treasured a childlike portrait of herself by her grandson and had a penchant for ethnographic handicrafts.

The bundle includes three ceramics and a drawing by Pablo Picasso, including a 1953 terracotta jug made in an edition of 125 (estimate: 5,000 to 7,000 dollars).

For sale is an abstract screen print by Josef Albers entitled “Red Orange Wall” from 1970 (600/800);

by the American sculptor Glenna Goodacre, who designed the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, lovely small sculptures (200/5000).

However, two portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg have already exceeded their estimates many times over in the current auctions.

A colorful print by Eleanor Davis from 2015, showing the judge with one of her signature statement collars over the robe, is bidding in the upper four figures days before the auction closes;

it was estimated at 100 to 150 dollars.

The same applies to the laminated drawing "Bubbie of Liberty", with which Paul Spera portrayed his grandmother as a boy based on the Statue of Liberty.

It is the touchingly naive portrait of a superheroine of the rule of law.