The collection owned by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is expected to break auction records.
Three Studies for Self-Portrait by Francis Bacon was among the pieces found in Paul Allen's collectionMasterpieces by some of art's most renowned painters have gone on display before what's expected to be the largest auction in history.
The 150 works will be on public display in the coming weeks at branches of Christie's worldwide, before being auctioned in New York on 9 and 10 November. Max Carter, head of impressionist and modern art at Christie's, described it as a "once-in-a-lifetime" auction. "The common thread is this one man's vision. There was no advisor, this was something that he did himself, and buying at the highest levels, decisively and virtually without mistakes, which is something you very seldom see.
"But the truth is that to buy work at these price levels is beyond the reach of museums, so they are always in some way reliant on the generosity of private, wealthy patrons.
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