Christie's to auction Paul Allen's $1 billion art collection

Christie's auction house confirmed Thursday that it has won the right to sell at least 150 works of art from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who died in 2018 after a recurrence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The collection has a value of more than $1 billion, which could make the auction, set for this fall, the biggest in history, surpassing the $922 million collection of real-estate developer Harry Macklowe and his ex-wife Linda Macklowe, sold earlier this year. Allen's collection includes masterpieces from Renoir to Roy Lichtenstein, Boticelli, and David Hockney. Proceeds from the auction will go to charity.