![]() ![]() Other highlights from Wednesday’s sale included Paul Cézanne’s “La Montagne Sainte-Victoire,” which sold for $137.8 million, and van Gogh’s landscape “Verger avec cyprès,” which sold for $117.2 million. The auction house quoted Allen saying he was “attracted to things like pointillism or a Jasper Johns ‘numbers’ work because they come from breaking something down into its components - like bytes or numbers, but in a different kind of language.” The larger version of “Les Poseuses” is at the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia.Ĭhristie’s experts said that pointillism, a revolutionary technique when it was developed by Seurat and Paul Signac involving dots of color that combine to form an image, was of particular interest to Allen because of his computer background. ![]() Georges Seurat’s pointillist “Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)” sold for $149.2 million, Wednesday evening’s highest price. ![]() Allen’s masterpiece-heavy collection.Īll 155 of the artworks put up for auction Wednesday and Thursday in New York sold, and five paintings sold for prices above $100 million. NEW YORK (AP) - Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.6 billion during Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. ![]()
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