Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.5 billion during the first part of Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s masterpiece-heavy collection. FOX13
Paul Allen, Co-Founder of Microsoft Inc., speaks during an event at the 92nd Street Y in New York, on Sunday, April 17, 2011.
Georges Seurat’s pointillist "Les Poseuses, Ensemble " sold for $149.2 million, the evening’s highest price. The larger version of "Les Poseuses" is at the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. The auction house quoted Allen saying he was "attracted to things like pointillism or a Jasper Johns ‘numbers’ work because they come from breaking something down into its components — like bytes or numbers, but in a different kind of language."
"Never before have more than two paintings exceeded $100 million in a single sale, but tonight, we saw five,’ Max Carter, vice chair of 20th and 21st century art at Christie’s, said in a news release.
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