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A TEN-FIGURE AFFAIR.<\/b> On Wednesday evening in New York, at the Rockefeller Center headquarters of Christie\u2019s<\/b>, 60 works from the collection of the late Microsoft<\/b> cofounder Paul G. Allen<\/b>\u00a0hauled in $1.5 billion<\/a>, an all-time record for a single auction\u2014by a wide margin. Angelica Villa<\/b> has a report<\/a> in ARTnews <\/i>. (The previous high mark was set earlier this year, when the Macklowe <\/b>collection brought in $922 million at Sotheby\u2019s<\/b>.) Every single one of the Allen lots sold\u2014a white-glove sale, in industry parlance. Five met or exceeded $100 million, including an 1888\u201390 Georges Seurat<\/b>\u00a0studio scene, which went for $149 million<\/a>, and an 1888\u201390 Paul Cezanne<\/b> landscape, which brought $138 million <\/a>. Those sums were new top auction prices for the artists, and illustrated just how fierce demand is for art at the upper-most reaches of the market.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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