Christie's | Art Auctioneers

Christie’s has been at the centre of London’s fine art sales since it first opened its doors over 250 years ago. This auctioneers hosts sales ranging from classical antiques to Old Masters paintings to Contemporary pieces. Christie’s has been at its current headquarters in St James’s since 1823. In 1990 the auctioneers broke existing sales records with the sale of Van Gogh’s Portrait of Doctor Gachet for $82,500,000 and in 2018 sold David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) for $80,000,000, making it the most expensive work by a living artist. Christie’s smashed existing sales records again in 2017, selling Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi for $450,300,000.