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Christie’s Website Impacted by Global Microsoft Outage

10/30/2025

The website for Christie’s, one of the world’s leading auction houses, is currently down as part of a global outage of Microsoft 365 and Azure, the company’s cloud computing platform. When trying to access the site, visitors are prompted with …

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Christie's Took In a Combined $107.4 M. during Paris Art Week

10/30/2025

Paris Art Week heralded in promising results for both Sotheby’s and Christie’s, giving hope that the art market might finally be turning a corner. Sotheby’s two sales, titled “Surrealism and Its Legacy” and “Modernitês,” took in a combined €89.7 million …

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Christie’s Sale in New York to Feature David Hockney Double Portrait

09/18/2025

A marquee lot in Christie’s 20th century evening sale in New York in November will be David Hockney’s Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy (1968), a double portrait of the storied English writer and his American artist partner in their home …

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Sasan Ghandehari Sues Christie's Over Picasso Once Owned by a Criminal

08/21/2025

Collector Sasan Ghandehari recently filed a lawsuit against Christie’s, alleging that the auction house did not inform him that a painting by Pablo Picasso was owned by someone convicted of drug-related charges before he purchased the work. According to the …

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Christie's Reports $2.1 B. Sales Total for H1 2024

07/16/2025

Christie’s announced on Tuesday that its projected sales total for the first half of 2025 (H1-2025). The $2.1 billion figure, including fees, equals the sum it generated during the first half of 2024 (H1-2024). While last year’s total marked a …

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Canaletto Auction Record Smashed at Christie's London

07/03/2025

Christie’s Old Masters evening sale in London on Tuesday set a new auction record for Canaletto, when one of his celebrated Venice views sold for £31.9 million with fees ($43.7 million). Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day …

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Rare Mondrian Sells for $47.6 Million

05/14/2025

Rare Mondrian Sells for $47.6 Million A 1922 gridded primary-color work by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian fetched $47.6 million inclusive of fees at Christie’s spring auction in New York on May 12. The roughly twenty-one-inch-square canvas—whose size theNew York Timessomewhat …

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Andy Warhol Work, Estimated at $30 M., Hits Block at Christie's in May

04/11/2025

​Amid a drop in high-end art sales, Christie’s plans to auction Andy Warhol’s Big Electric Chair (1967–68) during its May evening sale in New York from the the collection of Belgian patrons Roger Matthys and Hilda Colle. The painting, measuring …

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The Cost of Freedom? Right Around $2.4 Million

01/29/2025

On January 24, Sotheby’s held a single-lot auction of an early copy of the Declaration of Independence. Known as the Goodspeed’s-Sang-Streeter copy after its previous owners, it sold for $2.4 million, falling within its $2 - $4 million presale estimate. …

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Swiss Collector Sues Christie’s Alleging Bad Faith and Mismanagement

01/28/2025

Jacob “Jacqui” Safra, a Swiss financier, collector, and scion of the illustrious Syrian Jewish banking family, has launched a legal salvo against Christie’s, accusing the auction house of bad faith and fiduciary breaches in handling his multimillion dollar art collection. …

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Christie's Names Bonnie Brennan CEO

01/15/2025

Christie’s will undergo a major leadership change effective February 1. Bonnie Brennan, the current regional president of the Americas, has been appointed CEO, succeeding Guillaume Cerutti, who has led the firm for eight years. The transition coincides with Cerutti’s new …

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Christie's Totals $5.7 B. in 2024, Down from Last Year's $6.2 B.

12/17/2024

Christmas is almost here, which means Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti did his best to bring festive cheer by crunching the auction house’s 2024’s numbers during his end-of-year press conference Tuesday. Cerutti said the house’s projected sales for this year total …

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Kim Kardashian May Have Bought $4.9 M. Basquiat Painting

12/17/2024

Rumors are swirling that Kim Kardashian may be the owner of a $4.9 million Jean-Michel Basquiat painting that appeared at auction at Christie’s in 2017. Kardashian has yet to officially confirm she is the buyer of the Basquiat painting, a …

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Christie's is Suing an Italian for Refusing to Pay $28 M.

12/16/2024

Christie’s is mobilizing its lawyers to tackle the winning bidder of a Jean Siméon Chardin masterpiece titled Cut Melon (1760) who is refusing to pay.An Italian investor called Nanni Bassani Antivari won the still life with a $28 million bid …

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