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The Latest Breaking News from Christie

Mark Knopfler's Brother In Arms Les Paul is the most valuable sale in his guitar auction that raised over $11 million

But the Dire Straits icon is not done buying more guitars

MusicRadar

“Staggering”: Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Collection has sold at auction for over $11 million – with a record-breaking ’59 Burst sale and 28 guitars fetching over $100K

The 122 lot sale included the Dire Straits man’s Money for Nothing Les Paul and Walk of Life Schecter, alongside his custom Suhr guitars

Guitar World

ISE 2024 Info: 'Experience is Everything' for Christie, Plus More Can't-Miss Booths

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Dire Straits Legend's Guitars Garner Six-figure Sales

Several guitars put up for sale by Mark Knopfler, the former frontman of British rock group Dire Straits, on Wednesday fetched hundreds of thousands of pounds each at auction.

International Business Times

Sotheby's Sales Drop In 2023 After Record Year

Storied auction house Sotheby's reported on Monday that sales had dipped last year to $7.9 billion, down $100 million from the record-breaking 2022 which was lifted by pent-up demand following the pandemic.

International Business Times

David Hockney painting not seen for 40 years to sell for millions at Christie's auction in London

The 1965 work, California, is being sold after being kept in the same private collection since 1968

Evening Standard

LIGHTS! CAMERA! CHRISTIE! Mike Perkins Receives Academy Award

The principal product developer has been awarded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award in Scientific and Engineering.

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Christie on 20 Years of Exhibiting at ISE

From Geneva to Barcelona, the show has marked several firsts for Christie. Three employees reflect.

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Boots, Banksy, Piano: Elton John Puts Items Up For Auction

Music icon Elton John has put a variety of personal items up for auction at Christie's in New York, including monogrammed silver leather platform boots, a grand piano and a triptych by street artist Banksy.

International Business Times

Pro AV Newsmakers: AVIXA Welcome Tobias Lang, The Vegas Sphere Has a New SVP, and More

Get caught up on acquisitions, appointments, and new sales reps in Pro AV.

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Woman struck twice by tonsil cancer celebrates as tumour shrinks in half

Jeanette Joyce says she is grateful for a clinical trial which allowed her to try a new immunotherapy drug regime.

The Independent UK

Christie's Laser Projectors Illuminate Museum X

The HS Series and Inspire Series 1DLP laser projectors are illuminating immersive exhibition spaces.

AVNetwork

Digested week: never enough tissues for the school carol service

Much as I try to steel myself and be like the Grinch, Once In Royal David’s City still undoes me every time

The Guardian - UK

Christie's Asia president doesn't think AI artists are stealing work: 'Do we know any artist that has created a painting fully isolated?'

"It's just building the same thing in a different way," Francis Belin said Wednesday at Fortune's Brainstorm Design conference in Macau.

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The Guardian - AU

Shakespeare’s First Folio: State Library of NSW takes the Bard’s ‘radical’ 400-year-old book out of the vault

Half of Shakespeare’s plays would have been lost without it – and it is now among the most valuable books in the world

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'A Challenging Endeavour' Christie MicroTiles LED Makes Art on a... Piano?

The solution displays the artwork and lyrics from Something Corporate's albums using LED wrapped around the piano.

Louder

“I’ll be sad to see them go but we’ve had wonderful times together and I can’t play them all”: Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler is selling off his guitar collection

Dire Straits' leader Mark Knopfler is putting 120 guitars up for auction in January

The Independent UK

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler is putting some of his guitars up for auction

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler will sell off a collection of guitars he considers “old friends” at a Christie’s auction in London next year

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Mexico’s Largest Oil Refinery Turns to Christie Solutions for Complete Control

LED and LCD video walls, video wall processors, and a 30,000 lumen 3DLP projector power Mexico’s Olmeca Refinery.

The Independent UK

Picasso’s portrait of secret lover sells for $139.4 million at auction

Spanish patiner’s ‘Femme à la montre’, which told the world he was having an affair with his ‘golden muse’, is the most valuable piece of art sold this year

The Guardian - UK

Picasso painting of his ‘golden muse’ sells for $139.4m in New York

Femme à la montre, painted in 1932, becomes artist’s second most expensive work sold at auction

The Guardian - UK

Picasso masterpiece kicks off auction season forecast to sell $2.5bn in art

The 1932 painting of secret ‘golden muse’ heralds first big lot of autumn with Warhol and Rothko works also up for sale

The Independent UK

Blue diamond sells for more than $44 million at Christie's auction in Geneva

Christie’s says the largest fancy vivid blue diamond to ever come to auction has sold for more than $44 million, far outstripping the pre-sale estimate

Fortune

Millennials are discovering this recession-resistant asset of the super-rich

JPMorgan, Christie's and LiveArt weigh in on why the asset of art is so powerful—but the pitfalls to be wary of.

Chicago Sun-Times

JFK assassination-era photos up for auction: ‘A fascinating time capsule of a very tragic period’

A Vernon Hills man discovered the untouched photos, taken by award-winning photojournalists, while going through his family’s possessions for an estate sale.

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