Christie's (Q503176)
art business and fine arts auction house
- Christie Manson & Woods
- Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc.
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art business and fine arts auction house |
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14 March 2021
Christies
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6,600,000,000 United States dollar
2017
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Alain Dreyfus, an art dealer in Switzerland who bought the painting, Alfred Sisley’s “First Day of Spring in Moret,” at a 2008 auction in New York City, said that Christie’s did not sufficiently examine the work’s history before putting it up for sale.“The provenance is very dubious,” he said by phone from France. “They didn’t do enough work.”Mr. Dreyfus, who paid $338,500 for the painting, has asked the auction house to reimburse him that amount, plus an annual interest rate of 8 percent. He has said that he is willing to return “First Day of Spring ” to the heirs of Alfred Lindon, the collector from whom it was seized. (English)
Christie's hid Nazi past of painting (British English)
24 October 2003
8 December 2024
Nils Pratley
Paintings stolen by the Nazis from Jewish families are one of the most sensitive areas of the art market and Christie's has claimed in the past to be "a force for good by helping to restore items to the rightful owners". However, internal documents and emails between Christie's employees show that it took the opposite approach in the case of Merry Company With A Woman Playing A Lute by the Dutch master Jacob Duck. Christie's researchers discovered that the painting had been stolen by the Nazis in 1937 from Ulla and Moritz Rosenthal, a Jewish couple who later died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. But the company made no attempt to contact the descendants of the Rosenthals. (English)
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Dealer guilty of handling Nazi art (British English)
11 December 2025
6 July 2001
Art dealer Adam Williams found guilty after 11 years of litigation (English)
31 August 2001
11 December 2025
Georgina Adam
The whole saga started in 1989 when Mr Williams was a director of Newhouse Galleries in New York. He bought Franz Hals’ “Portrait of Pastor Adrianus Tegularius” at Christie’s for £120,000 (then about $200,000), from the collection of the French businessman Adolf Schloss. Mr Williams displayed it with this provenance on the Newhouse stand at the Biennale des Antiquaires in 1990, where it was seized by the French police. What he did not know at the time was that the painting had been stolen from its Jewish owner by the Gestapo in the château of Chambon, in 1943. The Nazis had been searching for the collection and finally found it in the medieval castle after being tipped off by a French collaborator dealer.“The painting had been sold at auction by Sotheby’s in 1979 and had been catalogued as stolen, but this was not mentioned in the Christie’s catalogue, which just said ‘in Schloss collection until World War II’”, said Mr Williams. “What I also did not know was that before the sale, the French government had written to Christie’s asking them not to sell it.” (English)
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