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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Year starts with a Modern British bang according to London gallery
19 April 2024Portland Gallery’s regular look at 20th century art includes its own actions and observations on the wider market
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Rare oval Chardin still life comes to auction in Paris this summer
16 April 2024A still life by the 18th century French artist Jean-Siméon Chardin with a notable provenance is to go under the hammer at Christie’s in Paris this summer.
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Christie’s reveals designer tie-up for latest decorative arts sales series
05 April 2024A year ago Christie's relaunched its decorative arts auction series to run concurrently online in three cities: London, New York and Paris.
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Famous Titian comes to auction at Christie’s this summer
04 April 2024The ‘Longleat’ Titian is coming to auction at Christie’s with a £15m-25m price tag.
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Record-breaking medical book returns home
25 March 2024Second edition of Vesalius landmark anatomical work sets a new high as part of science and medicine library
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Second highest auction price for LS Lowry set at Christie’s
21 March 2024Christie’s posted the second highest price at auction for LS Lowry (1887-1976) when ‘Sunday Afternoon’, one of his largest industrial landscapes, was knocked down at £5.2m.
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New benchmark for tribal art as Fang head makes €12.6m at Christie’s
14 March 2024A new record for African or Oceanic tribal art was set at Christie’s in Paris as part of the sale of the remarkable Barbier-Mueller collection.
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Paris drawings week: a taste of the action in salerooms
11 March 2024The Paris auction houses will also be hosting plenty of sales devoted entirely or in part to works on paper.
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Magritte leads Modern art auctions in London as overall totals fall
09 March 2024A surrealist painting by René Magritte (1898-1967) led the latest series of Modern and Contemporary art sales in London although overall the auctions at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips were rather flat compared to previous years.
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Auctions and dealer shows aplenty at Asia Week New York
04 March 2024Fifteeth year of the New York event involves 28 dealers and 12 salerooms taking part
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Auction of Elton John’s personal collection tops $8m on opening night
23 February 2024The auction of Elton John’s collection from his home in Georgia took a premium-inclusive $8m at Christie’s.
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Hubert Robert's range on show at Old Master sales
19 February 2024Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s offered notable works by French artist Hubert Robert (1733-1808) at the latest Old Master auction series in New York.
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Paris sale celebrates tribal art from the Barbier-Mueller collecting dynasty
19 February 2024The Barbier-Mueller family is well known as a collecting dynasty, especially for its ethnographic art.
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Old Masters: Supply lines come under strain
19 February 2024Market shows strength only for select works as sourcing high-quality material proves inceasingly difficult
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Mixed fortunes for rediscovered Rubens and van Dyck self portraits in New York auction
02 February 2024Two recent art market discoveries, both self-portraits by titans of 17th century British art, met contrasting fortunes in New York.
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Mark Knopfler guitar auction makes more than £7m at Christie’s
01 February 2024A six-hour sale of 122 lots from the collection of singer-songwriter and Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler took £7.01m (or £8.84m including buyer’s premium).
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Bayeux Museum buys Victorian replica of the famous tapestry from the collection of Rolling Stones drummer
31 January 2024The Bayeux Museum in France has bought a life-size Victorian replica of the Bayeux tapestry from the Charlie Watts sale.
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New auction records for under-represented artists as museums show purchasing power
29 January 2024The desire by top museums to buy works by under-represented groups, including women and minority ethnic artists, has led to two new auction records in the US.
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French auction sales totals: A year of ‘expected stabilisation’ after bumper period
29 January 2024Auction firms in France followed a more traditional course in 2023 according to the latest figures.
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Original watercolour for Little Prince makes top price among an array of manuscripts and letters
29 January 2024An original watercolour of the 'Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry fetched nearly 10 times its low estimate, selling for a record £240,000 hammer.
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