ART

A two-day auction of art and furnishings from the mansion of Henry P. McIlhenny, late board chairman of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, ended at Christie’s galleries with total sales of $3.74 million, nearly $1 million more than the presale estimate. McIlhenny, bachelor heir to a gas-meter fortune, bequeathed proceeds from the sale of furnishings from his Rittenhouse Square home in Philadelphia to the Philadelphia Museum. He bequeathed his finest paintings by Degas, Seurat, Matisse, Cezanne, and Van Gogh to the museum outright.