Stories from the Paul G. Allen Collection

Stories from the Paul G. Allen Collection

Discover 500 years of visionary artists

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Achieving $1.5 billion in a single evening, Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection is the biggest sale in auction history

Fueled by record-breaking masterworks, the Allen collection becomes the most valuable private collection of all time

Visionaries: 500 years of artistic innovation in the collection of Paul G. Allen

Harnessing his future-forward perspective, Paul G. Allen built an art collection of incomparable excellence

British art’s unholy trinity: what united and divided Bacon, Freud and Hockney

These visionary artists revolutionised ways of seeing and painting the figure, as seen in the Paul G. Allen collection

Masters of the Madonna: Botticelli and Gauguin’s reimagining of an icon

How these visionary artists in the collection of Paul G. Allen reimagined one of art history's most recognizable icons

Windows into a different country: the artists who defined their locales

From Klimt to Hockney, these visionary artists from the Paul G. Allen collection are inextricably linked to their locations

‘The summa’ of pointillism: the painting that redefined a movement and the artist who pioneered it

Max Carter, Vice Chairman at Christie’s, and art historian Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen explore the evolution of Georges Seurat’s oeuvre

Bold strokes: artists who pushed the boundaries of paint

An up-close look at the techniques of painting’s most visionary innovators from J.M.W. Turner to Gerhard Richter, as collected by Paul G. Allen

Venice’s enduring magic: how the floating city inspired artists from Canaletto to Manet

The Italian destination has captivated artistic visionaries for centuries, as seen in the collection of Paul G. Allen

Revealing brilliance: a history of artists who transformed light and atmosphere with paint

Seeking to illuminate their canvases, these visionary artists featured in the collection of Paul G. Allen captured light, and its elusive relationship to life

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