Watch the film on Instagram The galleries at Christie's New York—perched at 20 Rockefeller Plaza—have become a waystation for the restless collector this November, a place…
A brooch delicate as lace, its folds catching light through precious materials grown scarce. A parure vivid with the colours of the East, reimagined through Parisian…
Watch the film on Instagram The fright wig, platinum and dishevelled, frames a face that refuses intimacy even as it commands absolute attention. Andy Warhol's monumental…
Vienna in the early twentieth century glowed with artistic ambition. Gustav Klimt's gilt surfaces caught the light in bourgeois salons, while Egon Schiele's raw, urgent drawings…
Watch the film on Instagram The most accomplished collections rarely announce themselves through volume. This one, assembled with patience and an exacting eye over forty years,…
Petals of ruby, diamond and precious metal catch the light with the delicacy of something alive. Van Cleef & Arpels' Rose Noël collection, conceived as a…
Eskil Lam shares the cultural forces that shaped his father's revolutionary approach to Surrealism, grounded in Afro Cuban spirituality and the unconscious.
The convergence of scholarship and market opportunity seldom aligns with such clarity as it does this November, when Christie's 20th and 21st Century Art sale in…
A striking tiger brooch in diamonds, onyx and emerald joins a decorated ink pen case and lacquered vanity case from the early twentieth century. Together, they chart Cartier's lesser known appetite for transforming the everyday into objects of profound elegance.
Watch the film on Instagram The gallerist's eye is not trained to see what others see. Ileana Sonnabend possessed something rarer still: the conviction to advance…
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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...
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