Christie\' S
See also: Christie
Christie' S is a company of Auction of world famous based with London with the the United Kingdom. It was founded on December 5th, 1766 by James Christie.
Christie' S.A. quickly acquired reputation to conclude the greatest auctions of and. During this period, Christie' S.A. regularly sold with the biddings (for significant amounts) the national heritage of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, including objects entrusted by members of the aristocracy and even of the British Royal family.
More recently, Christie' S.A. sold with the biddings of the works of art and the personal objects related to historical figures like Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Diana, Princess of Wales, Léonard de Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Napoleon Bonaparte… In 1998, Christie' S sold in New York the famous Palimpseste of Archimedes after the end of the lawsuit during which he was discussed of the property of the known as object.
In 1995, Christie' S became the first international company of auctions to expose works of art to Beijing. Christie' S is the large rival of Sotheby' S for world preeminence as regards prestigious auctions. In June 1998, François Pinault, large collector and art lover, repurchases Christie' S.
An exceptional sale
November 8th, 2006, the house organized the most impressive sale of all times. It gathered 86 major works of the Impressionnisme and the Modern art. The largest signatures were present: Klimt, Gauguin, Kirchner, Schiele, Renoir, Rodin, etc the sale of four works of Gustav Klimt (two portraits, two landscapes) in particular drew the attention of the amateurs and the media: four works having known an animated history. They belonged to a group of five fabrics of Klimt, property of an Jewish family of Austria, constrained to flee the invasion Nazi in 1938. Works were seized then entered in the Austrian official collections after the war. The single heiress of the family, Maria Altman, trailed the Austrian State in front of her own justice in order to take advantage of her rights to the property on this artistic treasure. After about fifteen years of procedure, justice sliced recently in its favor. She entrusted the tables to the house Christie' S in order to sell them. The first work of this group, a portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I , was allocated: 135000000 USD in June, in New York, world records of the time. The four others, presented on November 8th, were sold for the sum of: 192704000 USD, with a peak with: 87936000 USD for a second portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer . The sale of the 86 batches of November 8th produces a result of transactions of: 491072000 USD, largest of the history.
External bonds
- http://www.christies.com/
This site, contrary to that of Sotheby' S, does not require a preliminary inscription. However the site of Christie' S does not preserve files of them the images of the batches of the last sales. One needs, before the sale, to hasten to download the images which one wishes to file, but often the historian, the amateur or the scholar are informed of a sale tardily.
External bond
- a mammoth with the biddings at Christie' S. April 2007. Text and photographs of Catherine-Alice Palagret
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