63-508: The Asia Game Changer Awards is an annual award ceremony held in recognition of individuals and organizations within and connected to the Asian community that have made positive contributions to the development and improvement of Asia and society. Inaugurated in 2014 by New York-based non-profit organization the Asia Society , in partnership with Citibank , the first ceremony was held at
126-684: A Beverly Hills saleroom in 1997. In April 2017, in moved to a 4,500 sq ft (420 m ) two-story flagship space in Beverly Hills, designed by wHY . Christie's has been operating a space in Hong Kong's Alexandra House since 2014. In 2021, the company announced plans to move its Hong Kong headquarters to the Zaha Hadid -designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will launch year-round auctions. Measuring more than 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m ) over four storeys,
189-675: A "firewall" between international relations and local politics. He pointed to the increasingly blinkered outlook of the local political discourse and argued for the need served by Asia Society to bring a broader perspective for understanding the role of Hong Kong in a global context. Christie%27s Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie . Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Amsterdam, Geneva, Shanghai, and Dubai. It
252-539: A 2007 initiative. A major renovation was completed in 2001, doubling the size of the four public galleries and expanding space for educational programming and including conference spaces and an auditorium. The headquarters also houses a museum shop and café. Forbes has listed the Garden Court Cafe (now the Leo Café ) on its All-Star Eateries in New York list several times. In January 2024, Kyung-wha Kang
315-409: A book launch originally scheduled to take place at its Hong Kong venue on June 28, 2017. It was understood that Asia Society Hong Kong was approached by PEN Hong Kong to co-curate the book launch, but negotiations stalled upon the former's request for a more diverse panel of speakers. PEN Hong Kong , a nonprofit organization supporting literature and freedom of expression, eventually decided to relocate
378-430: A civil lawsuit settlement of $ 512M. Christie's has been criticised for "an embarrassing history of a lack of transparency around provenance ". In 2003, Christie's was criticised for its handling of two Nazi-looted artworks claimed by heirs of the original Jewish owners. In one case, it refused to divulge to the heirs the location of an Italian painting formerly owned by Jewish Viennese banker Heinrich Graf, looted by
441-536: A deal that valued the entire company at $ 1.2bn. The company has since not been reporting profits, though it gives sale totals twice a year. Its policy, in line with UK accounting standards, is to convert non-UK results using an average exchange rate weighted daily by sales throughout the year. In 2002, Christie's France held its first auction in Paris. Like Sotheby's, Christie's became increasingly involved in high-profile private transactions. In 2006, Christie's offered
504-628: A prehistoric sculpture from Sardinia , valued at $ 800,000–$ 1.2m, put on auction by Michael Steinhardt , a US-billionaire, who was given a lifetime ban on acquiring further antiquities by the Manhattan district attorney's office in 2021. After having acquired artworks with unverified provenance for years, for example by convicted art dealer Giacomo Medici , Steinhard's collection had been subjected to search warrants and investigations since 2017. He finally surrendered 180 looted and illegally smuggled antiquities valued at $ 70m. According to The Guardian ,
567-703: A reported $ 21M guarantee to the Donald Judd Foundation and displayed the artist's works for five weeks in an exhibition that later won an AICA award for "Best Installation in an Alternative Space". In 2007 it brokered a $ 68M deal that transferred Thomas Eakins 's The Gross Clinic (1875) from the Jefferson Medical College at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to joint ownership by
630-564: A statement on PEN Hong Kong's book launch event and acknowledged for their mistake. "Asia Society takes this issue very seriously, and after looking into the circumstances, it is clear that an error in judgment at the staff level was made involving the PEN Hong Kong event. Asia Society, throughout its history, has hosted events at all of its global locations with speakers representing all sides of major Asia-related issues." Asia Society Hong Kong emphasized they received no representations from
693-766: A theme rather than an art classification or time period. As part of a companywide review in 2017, Christie's announced the layoffs of 250 employees, or 12 per cent of the total work force, based mainly in Britain and Europe. In June 2021, Christie's Paris held its first sale dedicated to women artists, most notably Louise Moillon's Nature morte aux raisins et pêches . In 2022 Christie's sold $ 8.4bn in art and luxury goods, an all-time high for any auction house. Christie's agreed to acquire American classic car auction house, Gooding & Company , in September 2024. From 2008 until 2013, Christie's charged 25 per cent for
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#1732798158629756-597: A virtually constant 70° and 50% relative humidity. Located near the Upper Bay tidal waterway near the Atlantic Ocean, the Brooklyn facility was hit by at least one storm surge during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. CFASS subsequently faced client defections and complaints arising from damage to works of art. In 2013, AXA Art Insurance filed a lawsuit in New York court alleging that CFASS' "gross negligence" during
819-436: Is Joshua Wong or somebody else, from speaking at our launch event would undermine and in fact contravene that mission," said PEN Hong Kong President Jason Y. Ng. Back to November 2016, Asia Society Hong Kong also canceled a scheduled screening of Raise The Umbrellas, a documentary on the 2014 Occupy protests with appearance of Joshua Wong. Asia Society Hong Kong has similarly cited the lack of balanced speaker representation at
882-448: Is a nine-story building faced in smooth red Oklahoma granite designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes / John M.Y. Lee Architects in 1980. Since it replaced some old brownstones on one of the city's most prestigious streets, Barnes gave the building a strong facade to continue the line along Park, and set it back from East 70th with a terraced garden buffering it between the street and the older houses on that block. The semicircular window on
945-589: Is owned by Groupe Artémis , the holding company of François Pinault . In 2022 Christie's sold US$ 8.4 billion in art and luxury goods, an all-time high for any auction house. On 15 November 2017, the Salvator Mundi was sold at Christie's in New York for $ 450 million to Saudi Prince Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud , the highest price ever paid for a painting . The official company literature states that founder James Christie (1730–1803) conducted
1008-453: Is situated on the site of a former British military explosives magazine overlooking Victoria Harbour and includes numerous restored military buildings. The project was designed by architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien . The Asia Society Hong Kong Center was established in 1990 . The Texas Center first opened in 1979. The current 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m ) building, located in the city's museum district , opened on May 6, 2012, and
1071-628: The Delmonico's Hotel grand ballroom on the second floor; in 1997 it took a 30-year lease on a 28,000 m (300,000 sq ft) space in Rockefeller Center for $ 40M. Until 2001, Christie's East, a division that sold lower-priced art and objects, was located at 219 East 67th Street. In 1996, Christie's bought a townhouse on East 59th Street in Manhattan as a separate gallery where experts could show clients art in complete privacy to conduct private treaty sales. Christie's opened
1134-641: The Gestapo . Christie's eventually revealed the holder's name after the Jewish Community of Vienna filed a successful suit in the UK on behalf of Graf's American daughters in late 2004. In the other 2003 case Christie's declined to inform the family that it had discovered that a painting consigned to it had been looted from Ulla and Moriz Rosenthal, a Jewish couple murdered in Auschwitz. On 19 May 2020,
1197-484: The Nigerian Civil War and were sold for €212,500 (after fees), below their low estimate of €250,000. Christie's claims to require "verifiable documented provenance that the object was taken out of its source nation prior to the earlier date of 2000, or the date which is legally applicable between the country in which the sale takes place and the source nation". In November 2014, Christie's had to withdraw
1260-655: The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . In the same year, the Haunch of Venison gallery became a subsidiary of the company. On 28 December 2008, The Sunday Times reported that Pinault's debts left him "considering" the sale of Christie's and that a number of " private equity groups" were thought to be interested in its acquisition. In January 2009,
1323-671: The United Nations headquarters in New York City . A total of thirteen honorees were awarded, including Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and internet entrepreneur Jack Ma , who was honoured as the first ever Game Changer of the Year. Nominees are selected from individuals and institutions nominated from the Asia Society's global network, which then embarks on a three-month long process of feedback and voting that results in
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#17327981586291386-494: The Asia Society. The Asia Society's original focus was explaining aspects about Asia to Americans, and Robin Pogrebin of The New York Times said that it was "[l]ong regarded as a New York institution with regional branches". Around 2011, the society was refocusing efforts on augmenting partnerships amongst Asians and between Asians and Americans in business, culture, education, and public policy. In 2011, Pogrebin said "over
1449-581: The Chinese government on this matter, and Joshua Wong and speakers from all sides of the issue were welcome at Asia Society. In an email to a member, Asia Society Hong Kong's Executive Director S. Alice Mong reasserted that as an independent non-government organization, it remains impartial and apolitical, and that its priority is to stay focused as an educational organization that presents balanced perspectives to promote critical understanding of topics that matter to Hong Kong, Asia and their respective roles in
1512-517: The Collection of Ambassador Trevor Traina - a former U.S. ambassador to Austria and founder of the web3 wallet provider Kresus . Eight days later on October 10, Christie's New York auctioned Ascend , a digital work created by Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell, marking the first time a piece inscribed on Bitcoin's Ordinals protocol had been sold in a live auction at Christie’s. Christie's sees this "integration of physical and digital ownership" as
1575-641: The London gallery Spink & Son , which specialised in Oriental art and British paintings; the gallery was run as a separate entity. The company bought Leger Gallery for $ 3.3M in 1996, and merged it with Spink to become Spink-Leger. Spink-Leger closed in 2002. To make itself competitive with Sotheby's in the property market, Christie's bought Great Estates in 1995, then the largest network of independent estate agents in North America, changing its name to Christie's Great Estates Inc. In December 1997, under
1638-477: The Rockefeller Asian art collection on display. Robin Pogrebin of The New York Times said in 2011 that the Asia Society is "perhaps best known for the elegance of its headquarters and galleries on Park Avenue at 70th Street". 2012 marked a major expansion, with the opening of multimillion-dollar buildings in Hong Kong and Houston, Texas. The Hong Kong complex , dedicated on February 9, 2012,
1701-773: The South Kensington saleroom in July 2017 as part of their restructuring plans announced in March 2017. The closure was due in part to a considerable decrease in sales between 2015 and 2016 in addition to the company expanding its online sales presence. In early 2017, Christie's also announced plans to scale back its operation in Amsterdam. In 1977, led by then Chairman Stephen Lash , the company opened its first international branch on Park Avenue in New York City in
1764-562: The Time of COVID. Speakers at the forum included Representative Ted Lieu , then-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti , community organizer Bincheng Mao, and actor Tzi Ma . The Asia Society maintains a strategic partnership with the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries . Pro-democracy activist and secretary-general of Demosisto Joshua Wong was allegedly disallowed by Asia Society Hong Kong from speaking at
1827-650: The United Kingdom and stored without incurring import duties and VAT . Christie's Fine Art Storage Services, or CFASS, is a wholly owned subsidiary that runs Christie's storage operation. In September 2008, Christie's signed a 50-year lease on an early 1900s warehouse of the historic N.Y.D. Company in Red Hook, Brooklyn , and subsequently spent $ 30M converting it into a six-storey, 250,000 square feet art-storage facility. The facility opened in 2010 and features high-tech security and climate controls that maintain
1890-560: The United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle) and around the world (Hong Kong, Manila, Mumbai, Seoul, Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo , Mumbai, Delhi , Paris and Zurich). The Society's headquarters are in New York City, and includes a museum that exhibits pre-modern, modern, and contemporary art from Asia, Oceania and the Asian diaspora . Asia Society also publishes an online magazine, ChinaFile . In January 2024, Kyung-wha Kang , who served as
1953-527: The United States as a longtime employee of Christie's confessed and cooperated with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation . Numerous members of Sotheby's senior management were fired soon thereafter, and A. Alfred Taubman , the largest shareholder of Sotheby's at the time, took most of the blame; he and Dede Brooks (the CEO) were given jail sentences, and Christie's, Sotheby's and their owners also paid
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2016-549: The aftermath of the murder of George Floyd , Christie's noted that there was a lack of racial diversity in the art world, and admitted that Christie's degree programs only exacerbated these inequities. However, Christie's continue to offer non-degree programmes in London, New York, Hong Kong and Amsterdam as well as online. In addition they offer an Art Business Masterclass Certificate and the Luxury Masterclass Certificate. With Bonhams , Christie's
2079-538: The auction house without any provenance in London in April 2005. Christie's had offered the Hauser heirs 50 per cent of the sale price; the heirs refused the offer and took the case to court. In 2018, Christie's began offering "digital passports" stored on the blockchain to a select number of private collectors purchasing art. These "certificates of ownership" gave the buyer a clear and transparent provenance record of
2142-403: The chairmanship of Lord Hindlip , Christie's put itself on the auction block, but after two months of negotiations with the consortium-led investment firm SBC Warburg Dillon Read it did not attract a bid high enough to accept. In May 1998, François Pinault 's holding company, Groupe Artémis S.A., first bought 29.1 per cent of the company for $ 243.2M, and subsequently purchased the rest of it in
2205-458: The company employed 2,100 people worldwide, though an unspecified number of staff and consultants were soon to be cut due to a worldwide downturn in the art market; later news reports said that 300 jobs would be cut. With sales for premier Impressionist, Modern, and contemporary artworks tallying only US$ 248.8M in comparison to US$ 739M just a year before, a second round of job cuts began after May 2009. In 2012, Impressionist works, which dominated
2268-608: The craft supply company Hobby Lobby , who purchased material for loan or donation to The Museum of the Bible , filed a diversity action on the auction house regarding the sale and purchase of the Gilgamesh tablet by private sale agreement on 14 July 2014, allegedly while knowing the Iraqi-origin cuneiform object had a fake provenance. In June 2020, they were forced to withdraw four Greek and Roman antiquities from sale after it
2331-496: The district attorney said: "For decades, Michael Steinhardt displayed a rapacious appetite for plundered artefacts without concern for the legality of his actions, the legitimacy of the pieces he bought and sold or the grievous cultural damage he wrought across the globe. In February 2023 a French court ordered Christie's to unconditionally restitute Dutch painting The Penitent Magdalene , signed Adriaen van der Werff (1707), looted in 1942 from Lionel Hauser in Paris and last sold by
2394-499: The eleventh century BCE to the nineteenth century CE and include Chinese ceramics of the Song and Ming periods as well as works by contemporary Asian and Asian diaspora artists. The museum's collection of traditional objects stems from a donation from Asia Society founder John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Blanchette Ferry Hooker Rockefeller, who contributed a number of items in 1978. The society began actively collecting contemporary Asian art with
2457-479: The final awardees. While recipients are usually from varying diverse backgrounds, the 2019 ceremony marked the first time that all awardees for the year were women only. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States , the 2020 and 2021 ceremonies were held online. Asia Society The Asia Society is a 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia . It has several centers in
2520-484: The first $ 50,000; 20 per cent on the amount between $ 50,001 and $ 1M, and 12 per cent on the rest. From 2013, it charged 25 per cent for the first $ 75,000; 20 per cent on the next $ 75,001 to $ 1.5M and 12 per cent on the rest. As of 2023, Christie's commission (buyer's premium) is 26 per cent of the hammer price of each lot up to £800,000/US$ 1,000,000, plus 21 per cent of the hammer price from £800,001/US$ 1,000,001 up to and including £4,500,000/US$ 6,000,000, and 15 per cent on
2583-494: The first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, from 2017-2021, was named its president and CEO, effective in April 2024. Asia Society has been described as a participant in the Chinese Communist Party 's "backchannel" diplomatic efforts. The Asia Society was founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd . In 1974, Rockefeller donated 300 objects of Asian art (worth between $ 10 and $ 15 million) to
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2646-461: The first sale in London on 5 December 1766, and the earliest auction catalogue the company retains is from December 1766. However, other sources note that James Christie rented auction rooms from 1762, and newspaper advertisements for Christie's sales dating from 1759 have also been traced. After his death, Christie's son, James Christie the Younger (1773–1831) took over the business. Christie's
2709-405: The future of art auctioning, and the most efficient way for buyers to know they've purchased a work with as accurate and secure a provenance as possible. Christie's first ventured into storage services for outside clients in 1984, when it opened a 100,000 square feet brick warehouse in London that was granted "Exempted Status" by HM Revenue and Customs , meaning that property may be imported into
2772-517: The global context. On July 10, 2017, Forbes magazine ran an article revealing Hong Kong real estate magnate and Asia Society Co-chair Ronnie Chan (a US citizen) to be the political force behind the Joshua Wong incident. It alleged that wealthy Asians have been behind US think tanks and NGOs and effectively turning them into foreign policy tools of the People's Republic of China (Beijing). However,
2835-687: The hurricane damaged art collected by late cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and his wife Jacqueline Rebecca Louise de Rothschild . Later that year, StarNet Insurance Co., the insurer for the LeRoy Neiman Foundation and the artist's estate, also filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court claiming that the storage company's negligence caused more than $ 10M in damages to Neiman's art. Christie's Education previously offered master's degree programs in London and New York, but they were planned to be phased out in 2019. In 2020, in
2898-672: The last few years [it] has aimed to recast itself as an international organization, partly through the construction of the two major centers in Houston and Hong Kong where it previously had only offices". The organization's records are held at the Rockefeller Archive Center in North Tarrytown, NY. The Society's Manhattan headquarters, at Park Avenue and East 70th Street on the Upper East Side ,
2961-483: The launch of Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a Borrowed Place – of which Wong was one of the authors – to the Foreign Correspondents Club . Joshua Wong said that Asia Society Hong Kong needs to give a "reasonable explanation" for the incident. "The mission of PEN Hong Kong is to promote literature and defend the freedom of expression. To bar one of the contributors to our anthology, whether it
3024-699: The link to the article went dead a day later. It has been rumored that Asia Society or Ronnie Chan could be taking legal action against Forbes for libel. On July 20, 2017, Asia Society Chairman Ronnie Chan defended the Hong Kong center's apolitical stance at an event in New York. He reiterated the Hong Kong center's deliberate stance to stay away from local politics and to cover business and policy, education, arts and culture as an institution. "At Asia Society, we generate not heat but light," he said. On August 4, 2017, Hong Kong international affairs commentator and newspaper columnist Simon Shen wrote in support of Asia Society Hong Kong's apolitical stance and described it as
3087-411: The market during the 1980s boom, were replaced by contemporary art as Christie's top category. Asian art was the third most lucrative area. With income from classic auctioneering falling, treaty sales made £413.4 million ($ 665M) in the first half of 2012, an increase of 53% on the same period last year; they now represent more than 18% of turnover. The company has since promoted curated events, centred on
3150-461: The new space, which incorporates a permanent saleroom and galleries, is comparable in size to Christie's London headquarters. In 2000, allegations surfaced of a price-fixing arrangement between Christie's and Sotheby's . Executives from Christie's subsequently alerted the Department of Justice of their suspicions of commission-fixing collusion . Christie's gained immunity from prosecution in
3213-585: The piece of art they were purchasing, a record that could never be erased or manipulated, and accessible worldwide. Six years later in October 2024, two Christie's auctions exhibited this block-chain technology in the most public events to date. In the first, on October 2, Christie's New York showcased the work of Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman in An Eye Towards the Real: Photographs from
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#17327981586293276-629: The pre-screening talk as the reason for not screening the film. US Congressman Chris Smith , co-chairperson of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, expressed that "The Asia Society has some explaining to do after two events that featured Joshua Wong prominently were canceled over the past nine months," said the New Jersey representative. "I commend PEN Hong Kong for not appeasing the Asia Society's demands." On July 7, 2017, Asia Society Hong Kong released
3339-550: The rest. As of 2023, Christie's has offices in 46 countries worldwide, with salerooms in London, New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Christie's flagship saleroom is in London on King Street in St. James's , where it has been based since 1823. It had a second London saleroom in South Kensington which opened in 1975 and primarily handled the middle market. Christie's permanently closed
3402-494: The two countries, focusing on policy, culture, business, media, economics, energy and the environment. Orville Schell is the current Director of the center. In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic , the Asia Society partnered with the nonprofit organization East Coast Coalition for Tolerance and Non-Discrimination and the Rockefeller Foundation to host a virtual forum entitled Standing Against Racism in
3465-404: The upper story and variations in the color and finish of the granite are intended to evoke Asian cultures. Paul Goldberger , architecture critic at The New York Times , called it "an ambitious building, full of civilized intentions, some of which succeed and others that do not". In the former category he put the interiors and the overall shape; in the latter he included the facade. In 1999, it
3528-547: The world. The Asia Society's Education department has two primary objectives: one focusing on teaching and learning about Asia in the United States and the other on the expansion of US investments in international studies at the elementary and secondary school levels. International education generally encompasses the knowledge of other world regions, cultures and global issues ; skills in communicating in languages other than English, working in global or cross-cultural environments and using information from different sources around
3591-585: The world; and values of respect and concern for other cultures and peoples. The Asia Society houses two policy institutions. The Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), founded in 2014, is a think tank that works with policy-makers and experts in Asia. The Center on U.S.-China Relations was established in 2006 with a gift from Arthur Ross with the goal of helping to forge a more constructive bilateral relationship. The Center undertakes projects and events which explore areas of common interest and divergent views between
3654-471: Was a public company, listed on the London Stock Exchange , from 1973 to 1999. In 1974, Jo Floyd was appointed chairman of Christie's. He served as chairman of Christie's International plc from 1976 to 1988, until handing over to Lord Carrington , and later was a non-executive director until 1992. Christie's International Inc. held its first sale in the United States in 1977. Christie's growth
3717-426: Was closed for 18 months so that new interiors, designed by Bartholomew Voorsanger , could be built. During that time the society used the former Christie's Manhattan offices on 59th Street as a temporary home. The completed renovation included a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) atrium and cafe. The expansion doubled the museum's exhibition space, allowing the society space for special exhibitions in addition to displaying
3780-653: Was designed by architect Yoshio Taniguchi . With a cost of $ 50 million, the Texas Center has a modernist style and was built with German-origin Jura limestone personally inspected by Taniguchi and his employees. The building includes glass walls, steam generated from the roofline, and a garden as significant elements. At its 70th Street headquarters, The Asia Society Museum is host to traditional, modern and contemporary exhibitions, film screenings, literary events and performances. The holdings include works that date from
3843-483: Was discovered that they came from "sites linked to convicted antiquities traffickers". The same month, they were criticised for putting up a Benin plaque and two Igbo alusi figures for auction. The plaque was tied to similar plaques taken from Nigeria during the Benin Expedition of 1897 and remained unsold after an auction was held. The alusi figures are alleged to have been taken from Nigeria during
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#17327981586293906-422: Was named the new president and CEO, effective in April 2024. From 1998-2010, the Asia Society annually presented a Corporate Conference in Asia, which functioned as a fundraiser, to examine the implications of macroeconomic trends and geopolitical developments for the region and the world. Heads of Asian governments were often featured, as well as roundtable discussions with business and policy leaders from around
3969-522: Was slow but steady since 1989, when it had 42% of the auction market. In 1990, the company reversed a long-standing policy and guaranteed a minimum price for a collection of artworks in its May auctions. In 1996, sales exceeded those of Sotheby's for the first time since 1954. However, profits did not grow at the same pace; from 1993 through 1997, Christie's annual pretax profits were about $ 60M , whereas Sotheby's annual pretax profits were about $ 265M for those years. In 1993, Christie's paid $ 10.9M for
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