Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s extensive private collection of art, valued at more than $1 billion, will be sold by Christie’s in what the auction house is calling the “largest and most ...

Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2018 at the age of 65. Jody Allen, Paul Allen’s sister and executor, said in a press statement that ...

Paul Allen’s extraordinary art collection is set to be sold off at what will be the largest auction of its kind in history.. The late Microsoft co-founder died in 2018, leaving a collection ...

Paul Signac’s Concarneau, Calme du Matin (Opus no. 219, larghetto), from 1891, was lot 6 of the Allen sale and took in $39.3 million with buyer’s premium. Source: Christie’s Facebook ...

Allen founded tech giant Microsoft alongside Bill Gates in 1975 and left in the early 1980s after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, although he stayed on the board until 2000.

Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, was strongly attracted to landscapes as “a way of looking outward,” which may be why he felt moved to spend more than $40 million on Gustav Klimt ...

Christie's auction house said proceeds of the November sale would be given to charity, as Mr Allen wished. The collection includes masterpieces by Botticelli, Renoir, David Hockney and Roy ...

Works by Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Gustav Klimt all sold for over $100 million across a record-shattering two nights at Christie’s in New York.

Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2018 at the age of 65. Jody Allen, Paul Allen’s sister and executor, said in a press statement that ...