Expected to fetch more than $1 billion at the two-day sale in New York, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's art collection will be up for grabs at Christie's at a time when experts say the super wealthy are viewing art as a safe investment this year amid a tumultuous global...
Auctioneers unveil Microsoft co-founder’s $1bn art collection
Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, becoming fabulously rich as the company grew into the computing behemoth it is today. By the time he died in 2018 at the age of 65, he had bought some of the most important works created in the last half a millennium.
Christie’s to auction Paul Allen’s $1bn art collection
The November sale of more than 150 pieces spanning 500 years of art will be "the largest and most exceptional art auction in history," Christie's said in a statement.
