
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, November 2, 1995                   TAG: 9511020020
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO 
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CHRISTIE'S TO PROVIDE AUCTION CALLER

The Art Museum of Western Virginia is bringing in a big gun for this year's Art & More auction, which benefits educational programming at the museum.

Susan Abeles, head of the jewelry department for the New York location of world-reknowned Christie's auction house, will call the Friday auction.

About 120 works of art and 75 other items, like week-long vacations, dinner at the Greenbrier, and antique jewelry and oriental rugs, will go on the block beginning at 8:30 p.m. in the museum's second floor gallery. All items up for auction are available for preview in the gallery.

The auction is preceeded by a ``Meet the Artist'' reception at 6:30.

For more information, call the museum at 342-5760.

by CNB