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The sculptures Alexander Calder made in the early 1950s occupy a singular territory in his practice, neither fully grounded nor entirely weightless. Demi Gondola, created in…
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The galleries at 20 Rockefeller Plaza hold the kind of conversation that unfolds across decades and sensibilities. Jean-Michel Basquiat's urgent, layered surfaces speak alongside Cy Twombly's…
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Watch the film on Instagram Jean-Michel Basquiat stood before Leonardo da Vinci's sheet of five grotesque heads and recognised something of his own inquiry staring back…
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The living room walls of a Montana ranch once displayed a vision of America that shaped its owner's philosophy for half a century. Albert Bierstadt and…
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Watch the film on Instagram Wassily Kandinsky believed that colour and form could speak to the soul with the immediacy of music. In Betonte Ecken, created…
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The loom, the chisel, the jeweller's loupe and the calligrapher's reed have produced works whose beauty rests not on novelty but on the infinite refinement of…
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The objects that travelled with the sophisticated collector reveal a fastidious eye for beauty in motion. A Tiffany & Co. diamond and enamel travel clock catches…
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The intimacy of a collector's vision, preserved across three centuries and three noble dynasties, rarely survives intact into the modern market. Yet A Vase of Flowers…
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The cut of a stone tells its own story, separate from the weight and colour that first seduce the eye. When Graff chooses to facet a…
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Watch the film on Instagram In the summer of 1915, Gustav Klimt gazed across Lake Attersee through a telescope, searching for the white lakeside inn where…
Read the story →The most recent story is Alexander Calder’s Demi Gondola: A Rare Tower Sculpture Comes to Auction, published on 12 November 2026.
Recent stories include Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale Gathers the Voices That Shaped Modern Art; Basquiat’s Dialogue with Leonardo: Two Masters Separated by Five Centuries; Ted Turner’s Vision of American Wilderness Comes to Christie’s; Kandinsky’s Spiritual Geometry Surfaces at Christie’s New York.
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Simply Luxury has published 118 stories about Christie's, all collected on this page and updated as new launches are announced.
The auction house founded in London in 1766, a leading marketplace for art, jewels, watches and collectables.
Our most recent Christie's story is Alexander Calder’s Demi Gondola: A Rare Tower Sculpture Comes to Auction, published on 12 November 2026. The sculptures Alexander Calder made in the early 1950s occupy a singular territory in his practice, neither fully grounded nor entirely weightless. Demi Gondola, created in 1951, embodies this paradox with particular...
Simply Luxury has published 118 stories on Christie's, including: Alexander Calder’s Demi Gondola: A Rare Tower Sculpture Comes to Auction; Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale Gathers the Voices That Shaped Modern Art; Basquiat’s Dialogue with Leonardo: Two Masters Separated by Five Centuries; Ted Turner’s Vision of American Wilderness Comes to Christie’s.
Our Christie's stories appear in Art, and every one is gathered on this page.
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