More than 150 artistic masterpieces owned by Microsoft’s partner, including Buttiseli, Cezan, Swato, Monet, and Honkni All of these pieces will be sold at Christie’s auction square the following week, breaking the previous record for the most expensive sale.
In the Christie auction room in May 2018, the painting of the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, which he drew in 1931, appeared on the stage, commissioned by Abby Aldrich Rockkefler and was presented as a wedding gift to her son David and his new wife Peggy in 1941, the work was a small part of the largest auction at the time, Auction finally set a record number of $ 835 million.
The Rivals was sold shortly after for $9.
8 million, a record for a Latin American artist at an auction (Ferida Kahlo, Rivera’s wife, destroyed $ 35 million in 2021).
Four years later, The Rivals is up for auction at Christie’s once more, together with more than 150 other exceptional works of art, in yet another ground-breaking sale that celebrates one of the greatest artefacts ever created, the late Microsoft founder Paul Allen’s creation of The Rivals.
The setting includes Van Gogh’s Orchard With Cypresses and La Montagne Sainte-VICTOIRE, both of which are estimated to be worth $100 million before the sale.
Allen’s outstanding art collection also only makes up a small portion of the $20. 3 billion fortune he left behind after selling The Rivals five months later. Allen passed away at the age of 65 from lymphoma cancer complications. Luxurious $ 278 million and an old aircraft group.
Max Carter, vice chairman of the Board of the Art of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, said, “This sale exhausts preference formulas; it is historical in terms of the quality of the painters, historical in terms of charitable work, and historical in terms of the quality of artistic artefacts.
More than 150 works of art by the Paul Allen group will be sold at Christie’s
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