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Christie's American branch at Rockefeller Center in New York. Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie.Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Amsterdam, Geneva, Shanghai, and Dubai. [3]
The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held by museums for viewing by patrons. Since museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting.
Jussi Pylkkänen (born May 1963) [1] is a Finnish art advisor, and was previously the global president of the auction house Christie's. [2] [3]Pylkkänen was educated at King's College School in Wimbledon, and has a bachelor's degree in English from Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University, and a master's degree in Fine and Decorative Art.
One of the last-known existing tickets for the 1934 Masters Tournament, shown in a protective sheath of high-impact plastic, is expected to go up for auction Dec. 6.
A 2019 pristine copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was sold for roughly $90,000 at auction. One of the 22 known first-edition copies of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with one ...
He accumulated 30 PGA Tour titles in total, the last of them in 1941, and his two major championships came at the Masters, at the inaugural tournament in 1934 and again in 1936 (the latter was the first Masters to end on a Monday due to rain). [1] [2] Smith was a member of five Ryder Cup teams: 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, and 1937.