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Nov 10, 2022 · The evening saw 60 extraordinary works achieve a total of $1,506,386,000, establishing the Allen collection as the most valuable private collection in history. Five paintings achieved prices above $100 million. The works in the sale sold 100 per cent by lot with 65 per cent of the lots selling above their high estimates.
Nov 10, 2022 · In 1998, a large Lucien Freud came up at Sotheby’s with an estimate of $2.5 million to $3.5 million, enormous sums to ask for a painter who, at the time, had barely broken a million at auction ...
- Nate Freeman
Christie’s and the estate of philanthropist Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, are proud to announce an historic auction of more than 150 masterpieces spanning 500 years of art history. Valued in excess of $1 billion, the sale of the Collection will be the largest and most exceptional art auction in history when it is sold at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in November 2022. All of the ...
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Nov 10, 2022 · A second tranche of the total 150 works from Allen’s estate to be sold by Christie’s will be offered in a a day sale on Thursday.
- Angelica Villa
Nov 9, 2022 · The artworks — more than 150 of which came to Christie’s, which will offer 95 of them in a day sale on Thursday — spanned 500 years of history.
Sep 23, 2022 · Look Inside the $1 Billion Sale of Paul Allen’s Art Collection. Works from the late Microsoft co-founder’s estate are being sold for charity. The triptych Three Studies for Self-Portrait (1979)...
Aug 25, 2022 · Among the highlights of the works from the Allen estate that will be for sale is Jasper Johns’s encaustic, acrylic and paper collage “Small False Start” from 1960, estimated to bring more...
