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Christie's auction house in New York.CNBCA version of this first article appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Auction house Christie's just sold a painting for more than $100 million, although the artwork, the buyer and the seller were officially kept a secret.In an interview with CNBC, CEO Guillaume Cerutti said Christie's sold a painting in January in a private sale with a…

Agatha Christie adaptations are an annual Christmas tradition, as is the nervous anticipation of viewers sitting down to witness the snipping and streamlining of another beloved novel to fit the screen. This year my adaptation of Christie’s relatively little-known 1938 Murder Is Easy joins the ranks of this murderously festive family fare.The original Murder Is Easy sees Christie experimenting with form and themes, class and gender commentary, even some Wicker-Man style folk horror in a darkly romantic comedy with as much…

Agatha Christie would have approved of changing the protagonist’s heritage from white to Nigerian in the BBC’s TV adaptation of Murder Is Easy, her great-grandson has suggested.This year’s BBC Christmas Christie adaptation has cast David Jonsson as the protagonist Luke Fitzwilliam, a young man forging a career in Whitehall until a mysterious encounter drives him to investigate a murder in an English village.Asked by the Radio Times what Christie would have made of changing Fitzwilliam’s heritage to Nigerian, James…

Hundreds of rare books owned by the Rolling Stones drummer and bibliophile Charlie Watts will be put up for sale this autumn, representing the “best collection of modern first editions” to come to auction in over 20 years.Watts, who died in 2021, amassed the works of mostly 20th-century authors including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway. The titles, which will be auctioned by Christie’s, reflect “an incredibly sensitive curiosity about the very best of literature,” said Mark…

I read my first Agatha Christie a little late in life. In college, at a time when the internet was the preserve of a select few, books had to be bought in stores, and thrifting wasn’t a concept, I chanced upon a dog-eared copy of The ABC Murders at a ramshackle library that my cousin and I frequented every summer. Emerging only later that night, I set the book aside as the best thing I had ever read. It was the beginning of a life-long love affair. PREMIUM Just the sort of lovely home in a quiet English village…

Who knew it was still possible to collect an iconic work of art for under $3 million? Case in point: On Tuesday, Christie’s in New York sold Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa” for $2.8 million—a new record high for the 1830-32 woodblock print.Christie’s only expected the work to sell for between $500,000 and $700,000, but six bidders pushed it higher in a battle that lasted 13 minutes. The telephone bidder, fielded by Christie’s deputy chairman Tash Perrin, remains anonymous. Dealers said…

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection went for over $1.5 billion, making it one of the most successful art auctions in history.Photo: Christie’sOriginal Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s massive art collection has already sold for over $1.506 billion as of Wednesday morning, according to the auction house Christie’s. More than half of those lots have sold for far above their estimated price range, and five of the paintings were priced above $100 million. In years past, according to Christie’s, only two other…

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s estate made auction history on Wednesday when a group of 60 artworks from his estate sold for $1.5 billion, smashing the record for priciest collection ever sold at auction.Lush landscapes and rare examples by artists like Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Sandro Botticelli and Jasper Johns anchored a sale at Christie’s in New York that reaffirmed the depth of the trophy-hunting art market at a time of broader economic uncertainty.…

Nike Unreleased Air Jordan VI Donda West SneakerCHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2022Christie's is launching a new department to capitalize on the booming market for collectible sneakers, streetwear and sports history.The auction house on Monday announced its Department X, giving Air Jordans and Supreme skate decks their own category, alongside Impressionist & Modern Art and Old Masters. The move is the latest sign that a wave of younger collectors are redefining the collectibles world."When looking at the auction world and the…

Agatha Christie was sitting quietly on a train when she overheard a stranger saying her name. In the carriage, she said, were “two women discussing me, both with copies of my paperback editions on their knees”. They had no idea of the identity of their fellow passenger, and proceeded to discuss the most famous author in the world. “I hear,” said one of the ladies, “she drinks like a fish.”I love this story because it sums up so much about Agatha Christie’s life. They both had her paperbacks. Of course they did. Christie…