His favorites include a 40' painting of Liza Minnelli's face and the "Cleopatra" ad that included Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison.
Other items up for sale include a painting by Frank Sinatra, Jim Morrison's mug shot and a set of Ringo Starr's drum sticks.
Brand names include a painting by Joan Mitchell at the Hacket-Freedman Gallery, and a Willem de Kooning and an Ad Reinhardt at Spanierman Modern.
The art wall of what Mr. Ackerman calls "iconic images" will include a painting like "The Banjo Lesson," by Henry O. Tanner, which depicts African-Americans.
They include a painting by Paul Cézanne, Boy in a Red Vest, stolen in broad daylight by three men in ski-masks from the E G Bührle Collection in Zurich last year.
She led us through the 120 metre-long map room, past the huge tapestries by Pieter van Aelst, and the Raphael rooms that include a painting of the all-star line up of Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael himself in the School of Athens.
They include a painting by Matisse and many others by Dutch artists, including impressionist Isaac Israels.
The council's other works to go under the hammer include a painting called Seagulls and Sapphire Seas by Robert Gemmell Hutchison, worth up to £180,000, plus an etching and a lithograph by Pablo Picasso.
The exhibition is also expected to include a painting of his father, former President George H. W. Bush, as well as a self-portrait by the 43rd president.
The latest renovation, in 1994, which included a paint job and new roof, has left the manor house shining.
