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It was founded by James Christie in London in 1766 and became one of the world’s leading auction houses. My name is Aaron Reed and I want to thank you for your interest in my work. I am a self-taught fine art landscape and nature photographer specializing in large format, limited edition photographic prints with a broad base of fine art collectors and fans around the world.
Inside the cutting-edge collection of Rosa de la Cruz, who ‘saw into the future of what art could be’
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.
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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.
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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.
In both auction houses, the item’s owner has a “reserve”, or a minimum price they’re willing to sell their lot for. In Christie’s, if the lot doesn’t sell, then they will pay the cosigner the reserve price and become the new owner. If it just sells for less than the reserve, then they will pay the cosigner the difference between their minimum and the hammer price.
The piece was held in private hands since its creation in 1917 and was finally sold at Christie’s in 2015 to a Chinese collector, Liu Yiqian, for $170.4 ($186.1) million. This is the first of two portraits of similar composition depicting Dr. Paul Gachet, the doctor who treated van Gogh during his extended battle with mental illness and who cared for the artist near the end of his life. Warmer, with greater detail and more visible brushwork, the first version passed through various hands before ending up in the Städtel in Germany in 1911. It was subsequently confiscated and sold by the Nazis, eventually finding its way to New York in the possession of Sigfried Kamarsky who frequently loaned it to the Met. In 1990, Kamarsky put up the painting for auction at Christie’s, where it sold for $82.5 ($163.4) million, another record-breaker.
By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results from Christie’s London 20th/21st Century Evening Auction, March 2024 - artnet News
By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results from Christie’s London 20th/21st Century Evening Auction, March 2024.
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Connoisseurship and the Market: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
The experts at Christie’s auction house spent years learning their specialty and today spend their lives among beautiful, rare, and precious things. Here they share how their passion for design developed, what of their chosen oeuvre they most love, and how to begin collecting rare and eclectic pieces. You have agreed to be bound by the Conditions of Sale and if your bid is successful, you are legally obliged to pay for the lot you have won. The purchase price for a successful bid will be the sum of your final bid plus a buyer’s premium, any applicable taxes and any artist resale royalty, exclusive of shipping-related expenses. But now, at 60 and after working at Christie’s in London for 38 years, Pylkkänen is leaving the auction house to become an independent art adviser. His last appearance on the podium will be on Dec. 7, when he will lead Christie’s evening sale of old masters in London.
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.
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.
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.
Today, it’s noted as the oldest and largest international firm of fine art auctioneers in the world. It has 80 locations across the globe and sees an annual turnover of about $4 billion. Perhaps Klimt’s most recognizable painting, the long and sad story of this work has even been converted into a major motion picture. In 2006, Altmann sold it in a private sale brokered by Christie’s to Ronald Lauder, who put it on display in New York’s Neue Galerie.
It’s also worth noting that while cosigners are paid for their lot across all auction houses, they can also have various fees on shipping, insurance, and more, attached. Christie’s publishes Christie’s Magazine, containing articles on collecting and news of upcoming sales. Subsidiary businesses include appraisals and valuations; a photographic archive and image bank; courses in the fine arts and decorative arts; storage for works of art; and real estate services. In 2017 the firm set a record with the sale of Salvator Mundi, a painting credited to Leonardo da Vinci, which was purchased for $450.3 million, then the highest price ever paid for an artwork. My grandmother collected ceramics, mainly potteries such as Rookwood and Newcomb.
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).
In recent years, Christie’s has not only led the way in acquisitions and profits, but in diversity and innovation as well. Private sales have become an increasingly large part of Christie’s portfolio, to protect buyers and sellers of high-valued art items. They have also begun to expand into the property sector since purchasing North America’s largest independent realtor network. Finally, in May, 2021, Christie’s became the first top-tier auction house to sell an NFT, accepting cryptocurrency as payment by the buyer. Christie’s was founded in 1766 in London by James Christie who passed the enterprise onto his son upon his death. Silver is one of the most affordable and collectible decorative arts, and a great addition to a dinner table.
Artsy writer Don Thompson has written about the business side of each house, calling the two a duopoly. However, what makes them unique is that they both offer massive benefits to buyers to attend auctions. Christie’s, for example, offers buyer rebates and incentives like first-class tickets to attend their events. Since Sotheby’s knows that Christie’s is its main competitor, it has no choice but to offer similar benefits.
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.
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