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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]
Christie's, Paris [17] [18] $76.4 $58.4 Balloon Dog (Orange) Jeff Koons: 1994–2000 12 November 2013: Private collection Private collection Christie's, New York [19] $71.2 $57.3 La muse endormie: Constantin Brâncuși: 1913 15 May 2017: Jacques Ulmann Private collection Christie's, New York [20] $84.1 $57.2 Guennol Lioness: Unknown c.3000 BC 5 ...
Prior to joining the Anita Ko team, she worked in the jewelry department at the Christie’s saleroom in Switzerland, and she also worked retail at Swiss luxury jewelry company de Grisogono.
Country house contents auctions have been held formally since at least the mid 18th century, when dedicated auction houses were founded. The main auctioneers coordinating these sales today are Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams, with other auctions conducted by Lawrence's.
Following Dickens's death in 1870, the taxidermied remains of Grip were sold at a Christie's auction alongside his other possessions. [24] The raven was recorded as "Mr. Dickens's Favourite Raven — in a glazed case". [26] According to London newspapers of the time, Grip was "the subject of a hot rivalry in Christie's sale-room".
The 1950 sculpture was owned by Eliot Noyes, a close friend of Calder's, and then his family until 2012, when it was sold at Christie's; the saleroom created a catalog for Noyes' Calder pieces that capitalized on the connection to the owner as well as the artist. It achieved US$10,386,500, a record price for a Calder work and the most expensive ...
In the 1960s, British actress Julie Christie rose to fame as one of the world's most lusted-after bombshells. The leading lady of "Doctor Zhivago" and "Fahrenheit 451," Christie was not only a ...
Black Fire I was sold to a private collector [3] for $84.2 million ($84,165,000) on May 13, 2014, at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, [4] after a telephone bidding war, exceeding the estimations of $50 million made by the organizing house, Christie’s.