Virtual tour: The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller at Christie’s New York

‘Live like a Rockefeller’ and explore the masterpieces — from Picasso to Sargent and Hopper — as well as dining sets, decorative accents, furniture, ceramics, including those that reflect their appreciation for the natural world, and family treasures to be offered in the historic sales from The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller in New York

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Live like a Rockefeller — Monet’s Nymphéas en fleur

​Rebecca Wei, President of Christie’s Asia, explains why this late painting by the French Impressionist has such good feng shui

Live like a Rockefeller – Picasso’s Fillette à la corbeille fleurie

​Marc Porter, chairman of Christie’s America, on a Rose Period masterpiece from 1905 that ‘defines humanity’

Live like a Rockefeller — An ancient Egyptian bas-relief

​​Christie’s G. Max Bernheimer explains why David Rockefeller loved this 3,400-year old Egyptian portrait

‘An equal partnership’ between Matisse and his model

Biographer Hilary Spurling Odalisque couchée aux magnolias from the Rockefellers’ collection

Live like a Rockefeller — The Rivals by Diego Rivera

Virgilio Garza, Head of Latin American Paintings, recounts the colourful story of this masterpiece by the great Mexican artist

Live like a Rockefeller — Pablo Picasso’s Pomme

Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s ’story teller’ for The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, looks at a painting that gives him ‘goosebumps’

Live like a Rockefeller — A set of George III dining chairs

Gemma Sudlow, Head of Private & Iconic Collections, considers the English furniture that graced the dining rooms of two generations of Rockefellers

Live like a Rockefeller — Edward Hopper’s Rich’s House

American Art specialist William Haydock salutes a 1930 watercolour of Cape Cod — ‘one of David Rockefeller’s most cherished paintings’

Live like a Rockefeller — Gauguin’s La Vague

​​Loic Gouzer reveals his connections to a painting described as ‘one of the most original seascapes in Western art’​

Live like a Rockefeller — Corot’s Venise, vue du Quai des Esclavons

Venice resident Bianca Arrivabene, Deputy Chairman of Christie’s in Italy, on why this painting brought back happy memories for David Rockefeller

Live like a Rockefeller — Napoleon’s ‘Marly Rouge’ service

Specialist Carleigh Queenth discusses the Sèvres porcelain​​​ service treasured by successive generations of the Rockefeller family

Live like a Rockefeller – An eider drake decoy

Christie’s specialist Margot Rosenberg on a hunting decoy that sat on the window ledge above David Rockefeller’s desk in Seal Harbor

Live like a Rockefeller — Near Abiquiu, New Mexico by Georgia O’Keeffe

Specialist Elizabeth Beaman reveals how this 1931 painting connects four of the most important women in 20th-century art

Live like a Rockefeller — Edouard Manet’s Lilas et roses

A late still life by ‘the father of modern art’, which brought great joy to two generations of the Rockefeller family

Live like a Rockefeller — Delacroix’s Tiger with Tortoise

François de Ricqlès, President of Christie's France, explains how this exceptional work speaks to the Rockefellers’ mutually admiring relationship with France

Live like a Rockefeller — An imperial blue and white ‘dragon’ bowl

Margaret Gristina contemplates this ‘exquisite’ 600-year-old emblem of the long relationship between the Rockefellers and China

Live like a Rockefeller — An 18th-century unicorn chest

What this rare survival of Pennsylvanian German folk art tells us about the nature of David Rockefeller’s collecting

Live like a Rockefeller — Willem de Kooning’s Untitled XIX

Our Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York on a 1982 painting that resulted from a period of renewed energy for the Abstract Expressionist artist

Live like a Rockefeller — A Raymond Yard engagement ring

​Daphne Lingon, Head of Jewellery at Christie’​s in New York, on the 'dramatic' ring with which David Rockefeller proposed to Peggy in 1940

Live like a Rockefeller — A pair of Meissen hoopoes

Family historian Peter J. Johnson reflects on the passion for porcelain that has run through the Rockefeller family for generations

Live like a Rockefeller — An Ayyubid incense burner

William Robinson admires an enigmatic incense burner that reflects the Rockefellers’ interest in the ‘mixture of cultures’ and philanthropy in the Holy Land

Live like a Rockefeller — An imperial gilt-bronze figure of Amitayus

Asian Art specialist Tristan Bruck on a Buddhist figure of the deity of longevity, and how it might have served both the Kangxi emperor and David Rockefeller

Live like a Rockefeller — A Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington

Stephen Lash, Chairman Emeritus of Christie’s, on why this important portrait of George Washington was a fitting piece for the collector to have lived with

Live like a Rockefeller – Ingres’ Fräulein Ritter​

This 19th-century portrait was innovative for its time and caught Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s eye for the avant-garde, as specialist Furio Rinaldi explains

Live like a Rockefeller — La Clownesse assise by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The Rockefellers so loved this poignant image of a dancer that two generations of the family acquired two different plates of the same print

Live like a Rockefeller — Two Chelsea porcelain plaice tureens

Jody Wilkie, Decorative Arts Co-Chairman, reveals the romantic backstory to two 18th-century sauce dishes sculpted to look like flatfish

Live like a Rockefeller — A pair of Chinese export spaniels

What these two Chinese export porcelain spaniel pups reveal about trade between China and the West in the 18th century

Chinese Export porcelain from The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller

​​Highlights from the collection, with insights from the late David Rockefeller, and Christie’s specialist Becky MacGuire

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