Christie's
Christie's was founded in 1766 by James Christie in London. It holds about 450 auctions a year across with around 80 categories including fine art, jewellery, photography and wine.
Christie's has an international presence through its 12 salerooms including London, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Dubai, Mumbai and Hong Kong. They also have 53 offices in 32 countries.
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Symbolist quartet leads Christie’s drawing auction series
17 April 2023A six-figure sum for Belgian Symbolist Fernand Khnopff was the top lot of Christie’s drawing-focused sale.
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Christie’s relaunches decorative arts sales series
28 March 2023Christie’s has relaunched its biannual auction series of decorative arts sales to run concurrently online in three cities: London, New York and Paris.
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Rubens sketch last auctioned in 1867 is highlight of Christie's drawings sale
13 March 2023Christie’s holds its annual dedicated drawings sale in Paris on March 22, the same day that the Salon du Dessin opens.
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Obituary: Hugo Morley-Fletcher (1940-2022)
06 March 2023Hugo Morley-Fletcher has died aged 82. The former director of Christie’s, appointed aged 29 as head of the ceramics department, he was also an early and long-running member of television’s Antiques Roadshow, an author, father, gardener and horseman.
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Restitutions prominent at latest Modern and Contemporary art series
06 March 2023The overall total raised at the latest round of Modern and Contemporary art sales in London was boosted by a couple of recently restituted pictures.
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Five plus three equals eight auctions both live and online
06 March 2023Christie’s celebrates Asia Week New York with eight auctions: five live and three online
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DNA discovery and damnation
06 March 2023Extraordinary letter by Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist both commends and condemns a colleague
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Giacometti chandelier bought in Marylebone antiques shop for £250 sells for £2.4m
01 March 2023A chandelier made in the 1940s for the offices of cultural magazine Horizon, and later purchased by artist John Craxton, sold for a hammer price of £2.4m at Christie’s.
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Specialists have to vie for vendors in a competitive Old Masters market
27 February 2023Hefty estimates and guarantees suggest a fierce competition in the market when seeking consignments
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Christie’s opens new year in New York with full series of Old Masters auctions
27 February 2023The fact that Christie’s held a full series of Old Masters auctions in New York at the start of 2023 not only boosted the overall total for the January series but also added to the amount of activity in this sector generally at this key time.
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Pick of the week: Railroad spike hits a cool $1.8m response at auction
06 February 2023The completion of the US transcontinental railroad in 1869 was the marvel of its age.
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‘Medici’ brings bronze awards for museums at auction
06 February 2023Two important Mannerist bronzes were bought by museums when a New York private collection was sold in Manhattan last month.
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Pick of the week: Dealer Philip Mould buys portrait of interracial ‘sisterhood'
30 January 2023A 19th century folk art painting of one black and one white child depicted together as equals has been purchased at auction by art dealer Philip Mould.
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Rubens heads New York’s Old Master series
30 January 2023A painting by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) from the collection of the divorcing couple Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson led the latest series of Old Master sales in New York.
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Lichtenstein and Warhol with a touch of Hockney
23 January 2023Key artists in the American pop art movement such as Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) and Andy Warhol (1929- 87) make big ticket prices.
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The Salvator Mundi effect: a market transformation
16 January 2023Ever since the record-breaking $400m sale of Salvator Mundi at Christie’s back in 2017, the market seems to have become fascinated with other treatments of the subject.
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Old Masters: Still lifes take centre stage at sale of purchasing pioneer's collection
16 January 2023Juan Manuel Grasset became part of a new generation who bought directly at auction from the 1960s
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US spotlight: Bumper line-up of Old Masters
09 January 2023News of a busy month in New York including major fairs and a bigger auctions schedule
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Two Turners offered at Christie's Old Master series
09 January 2023Two works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), an early oil on canvas of the Thames and a watercolour of Switzerland, feature in Christie’s Old Masters series in New York.
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Herschel museum buys manuscript memoir
02 January 2023Two Herschel family-related historic items – a Royal Society King’s medal and a manuscript memoir – have changed hands at auction and in a private sale.
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