Art belonging to late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is sold at the largest auction in history.
Seurat's 1888 work Les Poseuses, Ensemble fetched the highest price, at $149mPaintings and sculptures owned by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen have been sold for a record $1.5bn .The auction house said works by Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne and Gustav Klimt each sold for more than $100m , breaking individual records for those artists.
Experts say the super wealthy are viewing art as a safe investment amid a tumultuous global economy and Russia's war in Ukraine. Other record-breaking works included Van Gogh's Orchard with Cypresses, which fetched $117.2m ; Gauguin's Maternity II, which sold for $105.7m ; and Klimt's Birch Forest, which went under the hammer for $104.6m .
Paintings from Georgia O'Keefe, Claude Monet, David Hockney, Andrew Wyeth and Pablo Picasso were also sold, along with sculptures by Alexander Calder and Max Ernst.The total value of the collection has already beaten the record set earlier this year, for the Macklowe collection, owned by a wealthy New York couple - which sold for $922m .
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