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The Stories Watches Carry
A wristwatch is rarely merely an instrument for telling time. In the hands of a collector, it becomes a vessel: a keeper of moments, a marker…
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The Gund Legacy: Where Collecting Becomes Philanthropy
The measure of a collector lies not in what they hold, but in what they release. Agnes Gund understood this principle with a clarity that transcended…
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The Koch Collection: Impressionism and Modernism Come to Market
To stand before Claude Monet's 'Champ d'avoine et coquelicots' is to glimpse a moment of artistic awakening. Painted in the summer of 1890, the canvas captures…
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Klimt’s Lake Attersee: A Masterwork Returns
The brushwork shimmers with an almost prismatic intensity, jewel tones layered and interwoven across canvas, each stroke a small act of observation transformed into something luminous…
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Lee Krasner Steps Into the Light
There is a particular gravity to the moment when a museum shifts its lens. At The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, such a moment…
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A Milestone Moment: Two Decades of Modern Middle Eastern Art Come to the Auction Block
Twenty years have passed since an audacious vision took root in the sands of the Arabian Peninsula. Two decades ago, Christie's became the first major international…
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A Transatlantic Vision: One Collector’s Extraordinary Ensemble of Twentieth Century Design Comes to Auction
There exists a particular species of collecting that transcends the mere acquisition of objects and becomes instead a lived philosophy, a deliberate curation of beauty across…
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Centuries in Conversation: Christie’s Gathers Masters Across Time
Watch the film on Instagram There is a particular pleasure in recognising how artistic preoccupations persist across the centuries, how a vision of heroism or longing…
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Two Decades of Vision: Christie’s Celebrates Modern and Contemporary Art from the Middle East
The story of how a region's taste in art evolves is written not in manifestos but in the works that collectors choose to live with, to…
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Centuries of Refinement: Christie’s London Collections Brings Together the Baron Family’s Pietra Dura Treasures
There exists a moment in the Renaissance when the boundary between painting and sculpture dissolved entirely. Artisans in Florence and Rome discovered that semi-precious stones could…
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What is the latest news from Christie's?
The most recent story is Alexander Calder’s Demi Gondola: A Rare Tower Sculpture Comes to Auction, published on 12 November 2026.
What else has Simply Luxury published about Christie's?
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.
Which Simply Luxury sections cover Christie's?
Christie's appears in Art.
How many stories about Christie's are on Simply Luxury?
Simply Luxury has published 118 stories about Christie's, all collected on this page and updated as new launches are announced.