The estate "will dedicate all proceeds from the landmark series of sales to philanthropy," Christie's noted on itsOver 20,000 people viewed Allen's collection ahead of the auction, "with lines as long as two hours stretching down Rockefeller Plaza in midtown," per theFrancis Bacon's "Three Studies for Self-Portrait" at the London preview.
Cézanne's "La montagne Sainte-Victoire," which sold for $138 million on Wednesday. Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Salvador Dalí's 'Le spectre de Vermeer de Delft." Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images David Hockney's "Queen Anne's Lace Near Kilham." Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesAxios on facebook
So, ya really can’t take it with ya, eh?
'A 1904 photo by Edward Steichen of New York's Flatiron building fetched $11.8 million — four times the estimate. It's also the second-most pricey photo ever sold'
Money games.
I appreciate he'll be using the proceeds for philanthropy but I wish they were all sold to museums rather than possibly disappearing into private collections.
send the filthy billionaires to space, never to return. we’re better off without them.
Allen let us use his skybox while registering voters, nice guy 🙏
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