{"id":57459,"date":"2022-08-26T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allens-1-billion-art-collection-up-for-auction-at-christies\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T22:04:08","slug":"microsoft-co-founder-paul-allens-1-billion-art-collection-up-for-auction-at-christies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allens-1-billion-art-collection-up-for-auction-at-christies\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s $1 billion art collection up for auction at Christie’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
Late Microsoft founder Paul Allen’s stunning art collection will soon hit the auction block and is expected to fetch over $1 billion \u2014 the most expensive art auction in history.<\/p>\n
In a statement released late Thursday, Christie’s confirmed that it had won the rights to sell more than 150 \u201cmasterpieces\u201d spanning 500 years of art history, including works from Paul C\u00e9zanne, Roy Lichtenstein and Georgia O’Keeffe.<\/p>\n
Titled \u201cVisionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection,\u201d the November sale is expected to earn an excess of $1 billion.<\/p>\n
Christie’s confirmed that all proceeds will be divided among several charities, \u201cpursuant to Mr. Allen’s wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen, who died in 2018 of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Bill Gates. After leaving the company in 1983 (he remained on the board until 2000), he built a veritable reputation as a philanthropist and collector.<\/p>\n