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.
Copy of Viscount Kingsborough’s 'Antiquities of Mexico' sells at Christie's in New York
03 August 2020Christie’s New York (25/20/13.5% buyer’s premium) recently staged two important book sales online that between them raised almost $3.38m, including premiums.
Mary Queen of Scots' prayer book sells at Christie’s Classic sale
30 July 2020A prayer book that once belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87) sold at Christie’s Classic Art evening sale in London.
Early summer sales in Paris awash with modern design highlights
23 July 2020Among the high-season sales traditionally staged in Paris in the early summer is a selection of auctions devoted to modern design.
Copy of David Roberts' The Holy Land owned by its creator
20 July 2020Unusual proof example of mid-19th century work was a copy which belonged to David Roberts.
Auction house Christie’s marketing chief has left the company
17 July 2020Christie’s global chief marketing officer Amy Wexler is to leave the firm on September 1 after two decades at the auction house.
Three continents, four auctioneers, 80 lots and 80,000 online watchers: Christie’s ‘One’ sale brings $421m
16 July 2020A late work by Roy Lichtenstein topped the bill at Christie’s first ‘relay-style’ auction. The sale involved four auctioneers in different countries each conducting a section of the sale with the venues linked-up together via live streaming.
Rubens among highlights of Christie’s July evening auction
15 July 2020Christie’s will offer a work attributed to Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) during its ‘Classic month’ series of sales in London.
Works of art with aristocratic connections feature at Christie’s new The Collector sale
11 July 2020Christie’s has launched a new cross category auction as part of its Classic Week sales featuring many items with aristocratic connections.
Rare Antonio Susini sculpture found in £12 box of bric-a-brac to be auctioned in Christie’s Classic Week series
08 July 2020A Mannerist bronze discovered in a box of bric-a-brac at an auction in South Africa is to be offered at Christie’s in London this week.
News in Brief – including Christie's merging its flagship art departments
06 July 2020A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including Christie's merging its Impressionist and Modern Art and Contemporary Art teams.
Lowry’s rugby crowd posts online-only record for Christie's
03 July 2020Leading a dedicated sale of works by LS Lowry, a painting believed to be the artist’s only picture relating to a rugby match set the highest price so far at an online-only auction at Christie's.
Christie’s merges Impressionist and Modern and Contemporary Art departments in coronavirus cost cutting programme
29 June 2020Auction house Christie’s has created a new department called 20th & 21st Century Art group by merging the existing Impressionist and Modern Art and Contemporary Art teams.
A new benchmark for Vietnamese ceramics
29 June 2020Christie’s claimed a new record for Vietnamese ceramics when a large 15th century blue and white storage jar sold for a surprise €380,000 (£339,300) as part of the Art d'Asie sale in Paris.
Nobel Prize and bindings combine to impress
29 June 2020Christie’s (25/20/13.5% buyer’s premium) recent sale in Paris of books and manuscripts was led at €125,000 (£113,635) by a Nobel Prize for Literature medal awarded in 1947, just four years before his death, to the essayist, critic, novelist and dramatist André Gide.
Overall total at Christie’s Classic Week falls as sales pushed back until the autumn
25 June 2020The postponement of three top-end paintings and objects sales meant that the overall total generated by Christie’s latest ‘Classic Week’ in New York was well down on previous years.
Allow access to antiquities files, says Christie’s
22 June 2020Following the removal of four lots from a New York sale, Christie’s has expressed frustration at being denied access to key information on possible looted antiquities.
Punchinello comeback and pastels debut help to boost Paris drawings auction
15 June 2020Christie’s (25/20/13.5% buyer’s premium) has held its first live sales in Paris since lockdown.
La Biennale Paris dealers will offer objects at an online auction at Christie’s this autumn
09 June 2020La Biennale Paris and dealer association Syndicat National des Antiquaires have organised an online auction at Christie’s.
London auction rooms back to ‘new normal’
08 June 2020Auction houses in London have announced they are restarting live auctions in June.
People watching: Christie’s to stage auction of LS Lowry works online
08 June 2020A group of 19 paintings and drawings by LS Lowry will offered in a one-off online auction at Christie’s that closes on July 2.
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