Christie’s and Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen (1953-2018) Legacy Committee is pleased to present the “Visionary Seeing: The Paul Allen Collection” charity auction, bringing forth groundbreaking masterpieces spanning 500 years of art history. These treasures will be highlighted in two live auctions at Christie’s Rockefeller Center starting on November 9, with an estimated value exceeding $1 billion, an unprecedented scale! The auction will feature over 150 masterpieces, fully revealing the development context of art history. All proceeds from this historically significant auction will be donated to charity according to Allen’s wishes.
Paul G. Allen is a visionary innovator dedicated to collecting top-notch art treasures and masterpieces of legendary artists. The auction presents a dazzling array of masterpieces, often the ultimate works in private collections, including works by Jan Brueghel the Younger, J.M.W. Turner, Edouard Manet, Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and other artists. This collection bears witness to the avant-garde artists’ pioneering use of pigments, light, portrait techniques, and different spaces to create groundbreaking works.
The following will feature selected notable artworks, allowing everyone to understand what top art treasures this visionary pioneer has collected:
Hong Kong audiences can now be the first to appreciate these treasures at the Christie’s Art Space in Pedder Building in Central. The exhibition will end on October 7th, so remember to seize this rare opportunity! “Pioneer Vision: The Collection of Paul Allen” will officially start in New York on November 9th to 10th, so stay tuned!
Image and information source: Christie’s
