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With Eyes On Education, Alan Page Puts Treasured Basquiat Drawings Up For Auction

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alan Page was married in 1973, midway through a Hall of Fame career with the Minnesota Vikings, and he and his wife soon went to work on covering the bare walls in the new home they had built.

The remedy was art, and their collection flourished.

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Now, as Page’s unparalleled post-football path continues in Minnesota in the intersecting spaces of educational opportunity and racial justice, two of the couple’s most prized pieces are on the market. Diane Sims Page died in 2018, and her surviving husband and children decided the time was right.