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According to the New York Times, a dazzling event has recently occurred in the art world. Christie's Auction Co., Ltd. announced on August 25 that it will sell the private art collection of Microsoft co -founder Paul G. Allen. Paul Allen was born in 1953. In 1975, he founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and later died of cancer in 2018. His art collection is exquisite and valuable, including Impressionist painter Renoi and Pop art master Roy Licodenstan, estimated to be worth more than $ 1 billion.

Paul Allen.

More than 150 art auctions spanning 500 years will be held in November, but the specific date has not been determined. Christie's said that this will be the biggest in the history of the auction, and will use Allen's instructions to use all the benefits for charity.

"This is a major event for the art world and the art market," said Christie's CEO Ji Lum, Saim Saireti, in a telephone interview. "Allen's collection contains outstanding artworks for nearly five centuries -from Potcheli to David Hockni, and this auction is dedicated to charity, we are really this extraordinary extraordinary. The project was moved. This is a very special thing. "

The highlights of the artwork to be sold in Paul Allen Manor are the "Small False Start" created by American Pop painter Jasper John in 1960. "Mountain (1890), valuation exceeds 100 million US dollars. "Landscape painting is an absolute dominance in Allen's collections. This is his favorite art style," said Alex Robot, the director of art sales of art in the 20th and 21st centuries of art.

"Small False Start" created by American Pop painter Jasper John in 1960.

Paul Cezanne's "Saint -Victor" (1890).

Allen pursues music with the same enthusiasm for painting art. In 2000, he founded the experience music project (now the Popular Cultural Museum), where he showed the electric guitar and other items owned by the American rock guitarist Jimmy Hendrics.

American rock guitarist Jimmy Hendrics.

Allen lent his collected art to the museum and gallery. In 2016, the exhibition "Seeing Nature" jointly organized by the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum and the Paul Allen family exhibited Vincet Van Gogh, Edward Hopper and Gustav Krem Many works of special painters.

"I think if a person has many artworks, you should share them so that the public has the opportunity to see it," Allen told the media in 2015.

Although the new crown epidemic, the soaring Russia and Ukraine war, and inflation have continued to have a continuous impact on the global economy, the art market continues to soar, which proves that the world's richest collectors are largely influenced by world turmoil. According to the annual survey jointly released by the Basel Art Exhibition and the Swiss Bank, the art market created a revenue of $ 65.1 billion in 2021.

Paul Allen and Bill Gates in their youth.

In May of this year, Andy Volkhol's silk -screen printing work "Shooting Marilyn (Blue Sage)" was sold to an unknown buying at a price of about 195 million US dollars in Christie's auction house in New York for about $ 195 million. Home, make it the highest price of all American arts at the auction.

Earlier this year, the second batch of modern and contemporary art owned by real estate tycoon Harry McLlo and his ex -wife Linda McLlo brosen the record of private art collections for $ 922 million.

In 2018, the treasures of David and Peggy Rockefeller set a auction record of $ 833 million, becoming the most valuable private collection in the auction industry at that time, surpassing US $ 443 million in the 2009 Ive San Roland Tibetan.

David and Peggy Rockefeller.

David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection 2018 auction site.

Allen also regards art as an important investment. According to Bloomberg, at a Christie's auction in 2016, he awarded Monet's 1891 work "Dry Macro" at a price of $ 81.4 million, setting a record of the auction at the time.

In the same year, he sold a painting of a US fighter in the sky at a price of $ 25.6 million in the price of German Pop artist Gehard Richter. It was twice that he paid $ 11.2 million ten years ago. many. He also sold a painting of American abstract painter Mark Rosco in 2014 for $ 56.2 million. In 2007, he paid $ 34.2 million for this.

German Pop artist Gehad Richter and his work.

Allen also emphasized to bring culture to Seattle, partly because more people can contact art. He held the Seattle Art Fair at the football field of this city, where Allen also occupied the home of the Seattle Sea Eagle Team. His investment company Vulcan also commissioned the city's public art projects to support local artists.

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