“ Double Take: From Monet to Lichtenstein,” presented at his pop culture museum in 2006, paired Impressionist works with old masters, modern and contemporary pieces. “I feel that you should share some of the works to give the public a chance to see them.” “To live with these pieces of art is truly amazing,” Allen told Bloomberg in 2015. Among the highlights was Jan Brueghel the Younger’s 17th-century allegorical paintings of the five senses. Allen Family Collection in 2016, included pieces by Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper and Gustav Klimt.
The exhibition “ Seeing Nature,” organized by the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum and the Paul G. He pursued his interest in visual art with the same passion he brought to music in 2000, Allen founded the Experience Music Project - now the Museum of Pop Culture - where he displayed items such as guitars owned by Jimi Hendrix in a Seattle building designed by Frank Gehry.Īllen lent artworks to major museums and galleries, populating shows with his personal holdings.
Turner’s romantic seascapes and Lichtenstein’s Pop paintings on a visit to the Tate Britain in London.
with Bill Gates, caught the art bug after being captivated by J.M.W. Other details of exactly which works would be offered were not available.Īllen, who founded Microsoft Corp. In 2018, the treasures of David and Peggy Rockefeller set a high of $833 million for the most valuable private collection sold at auction, surpassing the $443 million total (revised in 2013) for the Yves Saint Laurent collection in 2009.Īmong the highlights of the works from the Allen estate that will be for sale is Jasper Johns’s encaustic, acrylic and paper collage “Small False Start” from 1960, estimated to bring more than $50 million, and Paul Cézanne’s “La Montagne Sainte-Victoire” (1888-90), estimated at over $100 million. In May, Andy Warhol’s 1964 silk-screen of Marilyn Monroe’s face, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” sold for about $195 million to an unknown buyer at Christie’s in New York, making it the highest price achieved for any American work of art at auction.Įarlier this year, the second cache of modern and contemporary works owned by the real estate magnate, Harry Macklowe, and his former wife, Linda Macklowe, helped Sotheby’s achieve a record sale for a private collection of art at auction, $922 million.
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“The fact that it embraces five centuries of great art - from Botticelli to David Hockney, plus of course the very inspirational figure of Paul Allen, plus the fact that the sale is dedicated to philanthropy - we are really moved by this extraordinary project we are on. “It’s a major event for the art market and for the art world,” Guillaume Cerutti, the chief executive of Christie’s, said in a telephone interview. Christie’s said it would dedicate all the proceeds to philanthropy, as Allen directed. The sale of more than 150 artworks spanning 500 years - to take place on an undetermined date in November - would be the largest in auction history. The trove, which includes masterpieces by Renoir and Roy Lichtenstein, has an estimated valued of more than $1 billion. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft who died in 2018.
In the art world’s latest eye-popping development, Christie’s auction house announced on Thursday that it would sell the impressive art collection of Paul G.
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