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A Landmark Encounter with Sir Frank Bowling’s Pioneering Map Paintings
Watch the film on Instagram There exists a particular threshold in the trajectory of an artist's legacy: the moment when a body of work, long held…
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Watch the film on Instagram There exists a particular threshold in the trajectory of an artist's legacy: the moment when a body of work, long held…
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There exists a particular alchemy in the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer whose disciplined eye transformed the quotidian into the transcendent. Whether his lens fell…
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A charming artist's book from Andy Warhol's 1950s New York apartment reveals the Pop Art pioneer's affection for his feline companions and his collaborative approach to colour and creativity.
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Watch the film on Instagram Few institutions command the weight of history that Christie's carries into each sale. This year, as the venerable house marks two…
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The cellars of Maison Joseph Drouhin, those hallowed subterranean chambers beneath the stone buildings of Beaune, represent one of the most significant repositories of Burgundian wine…
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Watch the film on Instagram The warmth of chromatic saturation, the play of light across fur rendered in jewel tones, the unmistakable presence of affection captured…
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Watch the film on Instagram There exists a rare and pivotal moment in the evolution of modernism when an artist arrives at absolute clarity of vision,…
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Watch the film on Instagram The abstract painter's mastery of colour and composition finds its apotheosis in 'Das bunte Leben', a work of extraordinary vitality and…
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Watch the film on Instagram The canvas vibrates with an almost architectural energy—interlocking planes of colour and sharp, shifting geometry that seem to pulse with the…
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Watch the film on Instagram The siphon, that most quotidian of 1920s household objects, became an instrument of transcendence in the hands of Fernand Léger. In…
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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