, which hung over her bed ; an Eleanor Davis portraitwhich hung in the judge’s office ; a ceramic jug by Pablo Picasso , and a program forThe sale was “a huge help this year as we try to cultivate the return of our audience,” Francesca Zambello, artistic director of the Washington National Opera, told the AP.
Antonin Dvorak/Rusalka, Metropolitan Opera 125th anniversary season, 2008-09, signed “Happy Birthday Justice Ginsburg.” Courtesy the Potomack Company Among the star lots was a monogrammed mink coat, which sold for $16,000, and a childhood drawing of “Justice Bubbie” by her grandson Paul Spera for a whopping $12,000.
RBG has been immortalized not only for her tireless work as a lawyer and judge, but also for winning the landmark gender discrimination case that is at the center of the film. The feminist icon was the second woman and the first Jewish woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, over which she presided from 1993 to 2020.