co-founder Paul Allen is expected to fetch a record-breaking $1bn when it is auctioned next week.includes Georges Seurat’s Les Poseuses, Ensemble and Paul Cézanne’s landscape La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, which are both expected to sell for more than $100m, and Gustav Klimt’s 1903 work Birch Forest, which has an auctioneer’s estimate of $90m.
“When you look at a painting you’re looking into a different country, into someone else’s imagination, how they saw it,”Christie’s said the sale was “poised to be the largest and most exceptional art auction in history”, eclipsing the $922m achieved by the sale of the, after the divorce of the property tycoon Harry Macklowe from his wife, Linda.
Marc Porter, the chair of Christie’s Americas, said Allen’s collection “brings together masterpieces in support of philanthropy on an epic scale”.
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