Final Umlauf Estate Sale at Russell Collection

Nudes cluster on West Sixth Street. Nudes embracing. Warmly.

These smooth sculptures are part of the Umlauf family estate sale that opened Friday at the Russell Collection gallery. Almost 300 sculptures and 200 two-dimensional pieces by late artist Charles Umlauf are the last big cache of his work to go on the market.

They became available to dealer Lisa Russell when the sculptor’s wife, Angeline Umlauf, died in June.

The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum retains many of the larger works and will determine what becomes of the family’s hilltop house and studio.

The lively assembly at the Russell Collection is eclectic — abstracts, portraits, religious images, family scenes and, of course, echoes of his famous pupil, Farrah Fawcett.

After Nov. 6, the unsold art goes back to the family, not likely to be available again on this scale.