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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Auction record for Beckmann at Christie’s as 'Birds' Hell' sells for £32m hammer
27 June 2017Max Beckmann’s terrifying image of hell, representing the horror of the Nazi regime in Germany, has sold at Christie’s for a record-breaking £32m hammer price to dealer Larry Gagosian.
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Asian buyer wins bidding battle for Henry Moore’s family group at Christie’s auction
27 June 2017A bronze family group by Henry Moore (1898-1986) led Christie’s evening sale of Modern British & Irish art in London last night, selling at £3.3m to an Asian collector.
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The bumper book sales season
26 June 2017As in many previous years, the months of June and July signal the arrival of large numbers of important book, manuscript and related sales.
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Christie’s auction call to prayer in London
26 June 2017More 19th century pictures will go under the hammer this summer at auction houses in London. Christie’s dedicated sale in King Street on July 13 is led by a collection of 46 Orientalist works.
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Auction previews - Egyptian and Greek antiquities
26 June 2017ATG previews a couple of upcoming lots at London auctions.
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Previews: £2001 - £5000
19 June 2017ATG's weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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10 highlights from London’s Russian art auctions
14 June 2017The Russian art auction series in London last week showed signs of some improvement in the market following a prolonged downturn since the bubble burst around a decade ago. The sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, MacDougall’s and Bonhams generated a premium-inclusive £23.2m, up from the £16.4m posted at the equivalent series last year.
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Christie’s sale of Rockefeller estate set to become the most valuable collection ever auctioned
14 June 2017What could be the most valuable personal art collection ever to come to auction will be offered at Christie’s New York next spring.
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Christie’s South Kensington veteran passes away
07 June 2017James 'Jim' Collingridge, one of Christie’s South Kensington’s first auctioneers and mentor to several senior auctioneer figures, has passed away at the age of 86.
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Lady Spencer’s collection to be sold at Christie’s auction
06 June 2017Princess Diana’s stepmother, Chatelaine of Althorp, Dame Barbara Cartland’s daughter, or Acid Raine. The late Countess Spencer had a number of labels and, according to the Telegraph, she “seldom left anyone indifferent”.
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CSK closure: ‘For the long-term health of the business it is right’
05 June 2017Christie’s South Kensington, a popular and influential fixture on the London auction scene for over 40 years, will hold its final sale next month.
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Music sale performs with style
05 June 2017Regarded by many as Gustav Mahler’s greatest song for voice and orchestra, ‘Ich bin der Weit abhanden gekommen’ was just one of many first-class performances featured in a 53-lot music sale conducted by Sotheby’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on May 23.
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Christie's South Kensington to hold final sale on July 19
05 June 2017Christie’s UK chairman says the closure of Christie’s South Kensington, the largest upheaval in the firm’s recent history, “has been a very painful decision for all but for the long-term health of the business it is right”.
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The £13m Asian art boon for London as Silk Road begins to run dry
05 June 2017“It was one of those eureka moments,” said Rosemary Scott, Chinese ceramics specialist at Christie’s. “My colleague Jeremy Morgan was on a perfectly normal valuation visit when he walked into the drawing room and there, on the mantelpiece, he saw these vases. He couldn’t believe his eyes.”
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My lord: £200,000 for Siena scene
05 June 2017This depiction of a 16th century bullfight in Siena’s Piazza del Campo starred in Christie’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale of the collection of the late Lord Weidenfeld.
Christie’s restructuring: a case study
05 June 2017Christie’s Chinese art department – shorn of the experience of Jeremy Morgan and Pedram Rasti (long-standing heads of department in both South Kensington and King Street who have recently left the firm) – will be led by Marco Almeida as international senior specialist and Kate Hunt, former head of sale at Christie’s South Kensington.
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Christie’s South Kensington to close sooner than expected
31 May 2017Christie’s is closing its South Kensington saleroom earlier than expected. The final sale will take place in mid July and it will close its doors on July 29.
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Basquiat and Brancusi dominate NY art week
22 May 2017The flagship auctions of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art in New York last week showed a recovery after a difficult 2016.
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Christie’s top man in Asia returns to Europe
19 May 2017Christie’s chairman of the Asia Pacific region François Curiel is returning to Europe after being promoted by the company.
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Solid selling rates in New York as Francis Bacon and Cy Twombly lead Christie’s contemporary art auction
18 May 2017Christie’s evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York met with a robust response last night and was led by paintings by two of the biggest names in the market: Cy Twombly (1928-2011) and Francis Bacon (1909-92).
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