HOUSTON - A withered accounting firm could be just what an art lover needs for something to spruce up a room. <br>
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Arthur Andersen LLP, the former four billion dollar Big Five accounting firm convicted in June of illegally destroying Enron Corporation-related audit documents, is planning to sell 650 works of art that once accentuated its empty offices in Houston and San Francisco. <br>
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The combination cash-and-carry sale December 6-7 and auction on December 9 in Houston is one of a string of similar sales in Andersen offices elsewhere in the country. The first sale was September 13 in Milwaukee, and other sales have since taken place in Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Andersen's U.S. headquarters in Chicago. <br>
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Los Angeles-based business liquidation firm Great American Group will conduct the cash-and-carry sale of 500 items at Andersen's downtown Houston offices. Artwork for the December ninth auction can be previewed during that sale.
