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London, UNITED KINGDOM · Oct 14, 2022
Asset
BGUK_2486072_025
Date
Oct 14, 2022
Parent set
From set #2486072Visionary: The Paul G.Allen Collection at Christie's · 29 assets in this set
Media type
Image
BGUK_2486072 - Public viewing of the private art collection owned by the co-founder of Microsoft. HIGHLIGHTS FROM COLLECTION OF MICROSOFT CO-FOUNDER, PAUL ALLEN PROCEEDS FROM $1 BILLION SALE TO BENEFIT PHILANTHROPIC CAUSES “You have to be doing it because you just love the works… and you know that all these works are going to outlast you……You’re only a temporary custodian of them.” Paul G. Allen London viewing this weekend. Sale takes place in New York 9 and 10 November 2022 Lots photographed: - Paul Cezanne 'La montagne Saint-Victoire' Est val $120,000,000 - Georges Seurat 'Les Poseuses, Ensemble ( Petite version ) Est val $100,000,000 - Alessandro Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli 'Madonna of the Magnificat' Est val IN EXCESS OF $40,000,000 - Lucien Freud 'Large Interior, W11 ( after Watteau ) Est val in excess of $25,000,000 - Francis Bacon 'Three Studies for Self-Portrait' triptych' Est val in excess of $25,000,000 - Joseph Mallord William Turner 'Depositing of John Bellini's Three Pictures in La Chiesa Redenttore, Venie' Est val in excess of $30,000,000 - Wassily Kadinsky 'Tiefes Braun' Est val $10,000,000 - $15,000,000 - David Hockney 'Queen Anne's Lace Near Kilham' Est val $8,000,000 - $12,000,000
Location
London, UNITED KINGDOM
