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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Lukewarm totals at London Contemporary art series
15 February 2016The Contemporary art market survived better than many had expected at the London auction series last week.
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Mixed results for London Imps and Mods series
08 February 2016In a week of varying results, the Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist Art sales at Christie's and Sotheby's London took £228.8m with premium in total (compared with £381.4m for the equivalent series last year).
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Diggelmann doubles auction high for a ski poster
03 February 2016A new auction high for a ski poster was established at Christie’s South Kensington’s annual Ski sale, held on January 21, when this 1934 colour lithograph advertising the attractions of the Swiss resort of Gstaad sold for £62,000 (plus premium).
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Sales fall at big two as market shapes to cool
02 February 2016Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s saw sales fall in 2015, a sign that the art market may be slowing.
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Modigliani tops Christie’s ‘Artist’s Muse’ sale in New York at $152m
12 November 2015Christie’s latest cross-category sale entitled The Artist’s Muse set the second highest ever auction price for a work of art when Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu couché (Reclining nude) sold at $152m (£104.8m).
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Lichtenstein’s Nurse sets artist’s record
12 November 2015A new auction record came for American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) when 'Nurse' was knocked down at $85m (£58.6m) at Christie’s cross-category sale entitled The Artist’s Muse earlier this week.
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Royal Institution to sell ‘non-core’ items
28 October 2015Scientific, medical and natural history books from the library of the Royal Institution are to be sold at Christie’s on December 1.
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Hepworth’s Orkney sculpture heads to its ‘natural home’
26 October 2015A small Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) sculpture bought at a Christie’s auction by The Pier Arts Centre in Orkney has now gone on display.
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First Apple on the auction block
22 October 2015An Apple-1, the technology that heralded a revolution in home computing when it was launched as Apple’s first product in 1976, is for sale via Christie’s online.
Christie’s to shake up NY calendar
19 October 2015Christie’s have announced a new themed week of sales in New York next April.
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Shackleton medals draw bidders at Christie’s auction
12 October 2015The collection of medals awarded to Ernest Shackleton, the most decorated of the Polar explorers, excelled at a recent Christie’s South Kensington sale.
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De Pury volte face as Lambert collection sale to be held with new partner Christie’s
09 October 2015Simon de Pury’s sale of the Lambert collection, trailed as a litmus test for high-end digital auctions, will now be conducted as a bricks and mortar event from the rostrum at King Street.
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Modigliani nude to be auctioned at Christie’s New York pitched at $100m
07 September 2015Christie’s have announced a major highlight for the upcoming New York auction series. They are offering Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu couché (Reclining Nude) which they have estimated at in excess of $100m.
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Export bar for Niagara Falls picture as Ed Vaizey hopes to keep early watercolour in UK
21 August 2015The UK government has placed a temporary export bar on the earliest known on-the-spot depiction of Niagara Falls which sold at Christie’s South Kensington earlier this year.
Chief executive of Sotheby’s France Guillaume Cerutti to join Christie’s
17 August 2015Guillaume Cerutti, chief executive of Sotheby’s France and European deputy chairman, is to leave and join Christie’s as president for London, Continental Europe, the Middle East, Russia and India.
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Luba lights up Christie’s Exceptional sale at £5.4m
13 July 2015This striking 2ft 1½in (64.4cm) high Luba figural bowstand made c.1880 by the Warua Master was the runaway star of London’s high season sales.
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Recovered Rodin to be sold at Christie’s New York
13 July 2015A stolen Auguste Rodin sculpture, recovered after it was consigned to Christie’s in 2011, will go to auction later this year.
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Coastal landscape by Richard Parkes Bonington tops Christie’s Old Master auction
09 July 2015A rare painting by Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828) that had hung in the Prime Minister’s residence at 10, Downing Street for nine years led Christie’s evening sale of Old Master & British paintings in London.
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Contemporary art week: some bumps on the record road
06 July 2015The latest series of Contemporary art auctions in London posted a bumper total despite the failure of some big-ticket lots.
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Restituted works headline Impressionist and Modern art auction series
29 June 2015A group of restituted paintings were among the highlights of a robust series of Impressionist and Modern art auctions in London.
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