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Sotheby's vs Christie's | The Art of the Auction | 4

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Is the Paul Allen Auction as Successful as Christie's Auction?

Paul Allen died in 2018. There was no real reason to wait that long to sell them, except they had to sale them for the highest possible amount of money. I think Christie's did it first where they sold a dinosaur during their contemporary art evening sale just to sort of recontextualize these objects and say like, you know what, this is just as impressive as buying Rothko or something.

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