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Major artworks owned by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen fetched big bucks at a two-day Christie’s auction.
Among them were works by artists such as Cézanne, Seurat and van Gogh.
The auction raised a record $1.6 billion.
All 155 artworks auctioned in New York on Wednesday and Thursday have been sold, and five paintings have sold for prices in excess of $100 million.
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Staff members hang a 1904 painting by Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, temps couvert, for the exhibition at Christie’s in London. ((AP Photo/Sang Tan, file) / AP Newsroom)
Georges Seurat’s pointillist Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version) sold for $149.2 million, Wednesday night’s highest price.
Christie’s experts said that pointillism, a technique pioneered by Seurat and Paul Signac that combines dots of color into an image, was of particular interest to Allen because of his computer background.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died in 2018 from complications from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. (Portal/Richard Clement/Portal Photos)
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Other highlights from Wednesday’s auction included Paul Cézanne’s La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, which sold for $137.8 million, and van Gogh’s landscape painting, Verger avec cyprès, which sold for $117.2 million.
“La Montagne Sainte-Victoire” by Paul Cezanne, an oil on canvas from the Paul G. Allen Collection. ((Christie’s/Courtesy of the Paul G. Allen Estate via AP, file) / AP Newsroom)
Top selling Thursday was the sculpture “Typewriter Eraser, Scale X” by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, grossing $8.4 million.
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All proceeds benefit philanthropists selected by Allen’s estate.
Allen, who founded Microsoft with childhood friend Bill Gates, died in 2018 from complications from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The Associated Press contributed to this report