Christies auction house

Christie's Auction House has mastered fine art marketing, capturing the attention of art collectors around the world for centuries.

Christies Auction House

Sotheby’s and Christie’s are both international auction houses established in the 1700s that now have connections to royalty and billionaires.

Christopher Burge, chairman of Christie's auction Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

A painting by Paul Signac was handed over to the heirs of a Jewish collector after being uncovered within the Gurlitt art trove.

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'Sotheby’s and Christie’s Jostle for Sales' --> via The New York Times - Sotheby’s and Christie’s are one of the business world’s oldest duopolies. Though always subtly different in corporate character, these auction houses have over the years been generally perceived to be evenly matched rivals.

Christie’s Global President Jussi Pylkkanen at the rostrum during the auction of Picasso's Les femmes d’Alger, Version O from 1955 that made auction record selling for $179,365,000. Record Auction-Image courtesy of Christie's Images Ltd ART AUCTION: Picasso and Giacometti's artworks help Christie's make record auction history. BY KAZAD Peter Doig

This 14.62ct Vivid Blue diamond has become one of the most expensive diamonds ever sold at auction.

Rivers, whose collection will be sold at Christie's this week, once described her apartment as "where Marie Antoinette would have lived if she had the money."