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Christie’s to Sell David Rockefeller Estate for Charity with $700 M. Estimate, Aiming to Break Record for Most Valuable Collection Ever Auctioned

After decades housed partially in the complex that bears its name, the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller will be sold to the highest bidder at Rockefeller Center. Christie’s announced today that in spring 2018, the house will auction off 2,000 items belonging to David Rockefeller—the last living grandson of formational American industrialist John D.…

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At Christie’s $289 M. Impressionist-Modern Sale, $57.4 M. Brancusi Smashes Artist’s Record

The New York auctions began last night with an Impressionist and modern evening sale at Christie’s Rockefeller Center salesroom that totaled $289 million, handily eclipsing its low estimate of $207 million and falling just short of its $307 million high estimate. “It’s the best Impressionist and modern sale in New York in seven years,” said Guillaume Cerutti, the Christie’s…