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for Luxury Collectibles

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Paul G. Allen

Paul G. Allen

Fine Art

The Microsoft co-founder's collection sold at Christie's New York on 9–10 November 2022 for about $1.62bn — the largest art auction in history — with the proceeds pledged to philanthropy. Six works passed $100m.

Realized at sale$391.6M
Estimated today modeled~$350M
−11%
Modeled value over timemodeled

Realized price carried forward by ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price trend for each lot’s category.

A modeled market-level estimate, not an appraisal. Individual pieces vary.

Documented sales

Georges Seurat, “Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)” (1888)
Georges Seurat, “Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)” (1888) Confirmed
Christie's·Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection, New York · Nov 9, 2022
Led the sale; among the rarest Neo-Impressionist works in private hands.
artnet News Image: Wikimedia Commons
Realized$149,240,000
Paul Cézanne, “La Montagne Sainte-Victoire” (1888–1890)
Paul Cézanne, “La Montagne Sainte-Victoire” (1888–1890) Confirmed
Christie's·Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection, New York · Nov 9, 2022
A world auction record for Cézanne. Allen had bought it at Christie's in 1997 for a reported $8.2m.
artnet News Image: Wikimedia Commons
Realized$137,790,000
Gustav Klimt, “Birch Forest” (1903)
Gustav Klimt, “Birch Forest” (1903) Confirmed
Christie's·Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection, New York · Nov 9, 2022
artnet News Image: Wikimedia Commons
Realized$104,585,000 (~$104.6m)

“Estimated today” is a modeled figure, not an appraisal: each realized price is adjusted by the change in ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price level for its category (the median of comparable high-value lots, from the sale year to the present). It is a market-level estimate; individual pieces vary, and categories without enough comparable high-value data are shown as insufficient to estimate.

Notable historical collection. The realized figures are public auction results, from the dates shown. “Estimated today” and the value chart are modeled market estimates, not a live valuation or appraisal, and not a current holding.
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Portrait: Miles Harris / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.