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- More from Christie’s
- Recent Sales: Pop Culture and Ancient History
- Dani Levinas, Art Enthusiast Who ‘Collected Collectors,’ Dies at 75
- Luxury at Christie’s—a spectacular array of magnificent jewels and rare watches
- The Second Paris+ Started With a Bang. Could Art Basel’s New Venture Unseat Its Flagship Fair One Day?
Throughout our lives these wines have been shared with enthusiasts and producers alike from all around the world. ‘We are delighted to partner with the Avery family to present the final offering from this iconic collection,’ said Chris Munro, head of wine and spirits at Christie’s Americas, and Adam Bilbey, global head of wine and spirits at Christie’s. By 1786, Christie’s sold the library of the famous Dr. Samuel Johnson, creator of the Dictionary of the English Language (1755).
More from Christie’s
Yet, due to their similarities, who people choose to buy and sell to largely comes down to “who’s nicer” when they meet them. According to Forbes writer Anna Rohleder, both auction houses are known for excelling in different areas. Sotheby’s new model is still going through approval by shareholders and the law. After that, it will adopt its new private curtain; and perhaps we’ll be able to compare Sotheby’s and Christie’s like apples and apples.
Recent Sales: Pop Culture and Ancient History
I joined Christie’s in 1997 and worked in Paris and Geneva before returning to London. I am particularly fond of Chinoiserie and Japonism in European ceramics, as well as Chinese export porcelain—there can be great results when cultures mix. I also love the late 19th century as an era, particularly works by the Minton factory and Theodore Deck. The Luxury category made up 36 percent of new buyers, the house said, and 35 percent of all buyers were new to Christie’s, with over half of them transacting online. The Classics category, which includes Old Masters, antiques, and memorabilia, saw the sharpest increase from 2021, with $789 million total this year—a 37 percent bump over last year. Christie’s announced today that, in 2022, it brought in a breathtaking $8.4 billion, many because of a group of single-owner collection sales.
Dani Levinas, Art Enthusiast Who ‘Collected Collectors,’ Dies at 75
In part to answer competition from rival auction house Sotheby’s, the firm began expanding beyond the United Kingdom by opening offices or salesrooms in Rome (1958), Geneva (1968), and Tokyo (1969). Christie’s became a public company in 1973 and was purchased by French investor François Pinault in 1998. The firm’s first Paris auction occurred in 2001, soon after the French government removed its traditional controls over auctioneering in France. Aside from being the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, the Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) also has one of the most mysterious and obscure histories. Likely a commission for the French monarch Louis XII from around 1500, the painting spent most of its life trading hands within the British aristocracy, disappearing and reappearing in various collections over the centuries.
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For example, in London, buyers will be charged a 25.0% fee on items sold up to £225,000. If the item is worth £3,000,001+, that percentage goes down to 13.5% of the price. This means if you bought a historical masterpiece for the 3 million mark, the fees could add up to a total of about £3.5 million. Sotheby’s and Christie’s are both giant, international auction houses that found their beginnings in the 1700s. Yet even if you’re deeply involved in the world of art auctions, it can be a little hard to tell the difference between the two.
Luxury at Christie’s—a spectacular array of magnificent jewels and rare watches
The ninth lot of the auction, cannily branded the “Last Leonardo” by a Christie’s marketing campaign, took 19 minutes to sell. After a protracted, gasp-inducing duel between two telephone bidders, Pylkkänen finally knocked the “Salvator Mundi” down for $450.3 million with fees, a record for any artwork, either at auction or privately. View all upcoming lots in Christie’s auctions and private sale works to buy now. Christie’s said wines in the Avery family collection cover two centuries of winemaking and were bought or imported on release, before being stored in purpose-built, stone cellars. Sotheby’s sold a collection of the rarest sneakers made by Nike, Adidas, and Air Jordans.
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Les Femmes d’Alger is a series of fifteen artworks by Picasso comprising a tribute to the artist Eugène Delacroix and his 1834 painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment. The last in this series, painted in 1955, is called “Version O” and was held by Victor and Sally Ganz, who bought the entire series back in 1956. Sold at Christie’s in New York in 1997 to a Saudi Arabian collector, it was subsequently relisted in 2015 when the former Qatari prime minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani bought it for $179.4 ($195.8) million, a new record.
To start any Chippendale collection, for me, the first thing to do would be to buy a copy of Chippendale’s 1754 book The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, which outlines his designs and technical ability. To me, the “English Country House Look” is synonymous with taste, history, and ever-so-slight eccentricity. Tell us a little about your Christie’s career…I joined this department as an intern in 2015, before moving into Private Sales and returning here in 2016.
Baker was an entrepreneur, publisher, and bookseller whose first auction was titled Several Hundred scarce and valuable Books in all branches of Polite Literature. With a love for ceramics stemming from childhood, Carleigh Queenth, Vice President, Specialist Head of Ceramics at Christie’s New York, has been with the company for 15 years. In 2000, allegations surfaced of a price-fixing arrangement between Christie's and Sotheby's. Executives from Christie's subsequently alerted the Department of Justice of their suspicions of commission-fixing collusion.
During her time in college, she worked in a Miami-based art gallery. She has attended major art fairs like Art Basel and Art Miami, recording new exhibitions and art trends in her articles. In 2018, she studied abroad in France, where she learned about art history in some of the world’s major museums. Since graduating, she has aimed to keep learning while passing on her experiences to those who are novices like she once was. As the “duopoly” of auction houses, Christie’s and Sotheby’s only real competition right now is each other.
Lumachrome Acrylic Prints are finished with a recessed float mount offering a modern, crisp display that looks striking in any home or business environment. For the ultimate in luxury wall art, externally framed Lumachrome pieces meticulously crafted using handmade Italian ROMA moulding are also available. The fantastic price realized for the Salvator Mundi demonstrates not only the rapidly increasing value of fine art generally, but also of the authority of Christie’s in the world of elite art collecting. Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian painter around the turn of the 20th century whose work resonated with and influenced the rising tide of Cubism in interwar Spain and France. Nu couché (reclining nude) typifies Modigliani’s unique style and can be seen as a precursor to treatments of the nude form in modern art.
He is the man who sold the world’s most expensive work of art, a face familiar to the millions who watch livestream auctions on their computers and phones. Family member Richard Avery said, ‘It is with great pleasure that my sisters and I are able to partner up with the team at Christie’s for this final sale of our family wine library. Bottles in the collection were acquired by different generations of the Avery family that is behind historic Bristol-based wine merchant Averys, founded in 1793. Sotheby’s followed suit with its adjusted buyer premiums in February 2019. Their prices are on par with Christie’s in London, placing 25.0% fee for up to £300,000 and 13.9% on £3 million + items.
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Three Studies is a triptych of Francis Bacon’s close friend and artist Lucian Freud. Painted at the Royal College of Art in London in 1969, the piece was subsequently split into three in the 1970s, much to the displeasure of Bacon himself. Luckily, in the 1980s, one of the original buyers obtained and recombined the three pieces, allowing it to be exhibited in its original form at the Yale Center for British Arts in 1999. After a brief exhibition in its homeland of Britain in 2013, the work came to auction at Christies, where it was purchased by Las Vegas business magnate Elaine Wynn for $142.4 ($158.2) million—at the time also the highest price paid for a work. While Christie’s main competitor, Sotheby’s, projected about $8 billion in sales this year, the houses are hardly neck and neck.
From 2017 to 2019 I worked on the eponymous Interiors sales at Christie’s before returning to Private Collections last year. Benedict Winter is a Junior Specialist, Private & Iconic Collections and Country House Sales at Christie’s London. Originally from South West England, Winter has been with the company for four-and-a-half years. As he explains here, his love for collecting started at an early age. It comprised 19 pieces weighing more than 13 stones (84 kg) and, spread on a table, it was over 13 feet (4 m) in length—and all made in the famous Régence style. The surtout was later sold at Christie’s in 1829, purchased by the dealer Garrard who transformed it to sell it off.
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