“Carol Bosco Baumann, a spokeswoman for the museum, said that only 19 of the original 40 works will be offered for sale in auctions stretching out into March. ‘Plans for the balance of the deaccessioned works will be shared in due course by Sotheby’s,’ she said in an email to The Eagle.” (The Norman Rockwell paintings whose sale his children have sued to block were not among the works cut.)