Art américain

Le département Art américain de Christie’s est spécialisé dans les peintures, sculptures et œuvres sur papier du XIXe au début du XXe siècle, notamment avec des chefs-d’œuvre de l'école de l'Hudson, de l’impressionnisme américain, de l’Ouest américain, de l’illustration et du modernisme.

Nous organisons deux ventes aux enchères soigneusement sélectionnées chaque année : Art américain et occidental du XIXe siècle, dans le cadre de l’Americana Week en janvier et Art américain moderne en avril. De plus, des œuvres américaines majeures sont mises à l'honneur lors de l'emblématique semaine de ventes consacrée à l’art des XXe et XXIe siècles organisée chaque saison par Christie’s, ce qui leur garantit une visibilité mondiale. Au-delà des ventes aux enchères, nous obtenons régulièrement d’excellents résultats grâce aux ventes privées tout au long de l’année.

Leader incontesté sur le marché de l’art américain, Christie’s a décroché d’innombrables records d'enchères mondiaux, notamment le record absolu pour une œuvre d’art américain avec Chop Suey d’Edward Hopper, adjugé pour 91 875 000 dollars US, (2018) et pour une peinture américaine du XIXe siècle, avec Washington Crossing the Delaware d’Emanuel Leutze, adjugé pour 45 045 000 dollars US, (2022).

Notre expertise sans équivalent dans le domaine des collections mono-propriétaires est une source constante de résultats historiques, par exemple les ventes record des collections David et Peggy Rockefeller, Barney A. Ebsworth et Paul G. Allen.

Cette peinture historique représente un groupe de soldats naviguant sur des eaux glacées dans un petit bateau, portant un drapeau américain alors qu’ils persévèrent dans des conditions difficiles.

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Tylee Abbott
Senior Vice President, Head of American Art
+1 212 707 5925
tabbott@christies.com
New York
Tylee Abbott serves as Vice President and Head of the American Art department. In addition to overseeing the department, he assists clients with all aspects of art collecting, from acquisition and sales to appraisals.

With a particular affinity for Western American Art, Tylee has played key roles in Christie’s marquee single owner auctions The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection and Visions of the West: American Paintings from the William I. Koch Collection. Notable auction results within these collections include Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, N.C. Wyeth among others. Tylee has also contributed meaningfully to noteworthy results for artists ranging from Alfred Jacob Miller to Victor Higgins and Rebecca Salsbury James.

Prior to joining Christie’s, Tylee held roles across the art world, including with another major New York auction company, as an independent art advisor, and at private galleries. He has also authored over 50 articles on the American and Western American Art markets. Tylee holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Business from Franklin & Marshall College and a Masters in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London.
Paige Kestenman
Vice President, Senior Specialist, Co-Head of 20th Century Evening Sale
+1 212 636 2139
pkestenman@christies.com
New York
Paige Kestenman, Co-Head of the 20th Century Evening Sale, is responsible for sourcing, sale curation and marketing for Christie’s market-leading masterpiece auction taking place each May and November in New York. A Senior Specialist and Vice President with a focus on American Art, Paige regularly provides clients with market updates, valuations and proposals for sale, and she works with a wide array of collectors on both auction and private sale acquisitions.

Since joining Christie’s in 2013, Paige has contributed to important sales ranging from Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, which set a new auction record for any 19th Century American painting ($45 million), to iconic examples by Impressionist and Modern masters, notably including John Singer Sargent’s Capri ($11.5 million) and Georgia O’Keeffe’s Red Poppy ($16.5 million). Over her tenure, she has taken an active role in marketing several of the top American Art collections of all time, including Visions of the West: The William I. Koch Collection totaling $85 million in January 2026. Paige also frequently assists clients with private treaty transactions for artists including Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Rockwell and Andrew Wyeth.

Paige received her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University with High Honors and earned her Masters in History of Art and Art World Practice: Art, Style and Design with Distinction from Christie’s Education London.
Quincie Dixon
Associate Specialist, Head of Sale
+1 212 636 2141
qdixon@christies.com
New York
Quincie Dixon, Associate Specialist, Head of Sale, is responsible for running Christie’s dedicated American Art auctions and serving her private and institutional clients with their art collecting, selling and appraisal needs. Quincie has worked in the art and auction field concentrating in American Art for nearly ten years and has been quoted in several financial and art market news outlets. She graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor’s degree in Art History.

Prior to joining Christie’s, Quincie worked for another major auction house as well as a prominent American Art dealer. She joined the Christie’s American Art department in 2018 as a Cataloguer when her first auction was the record-breaking sale of The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection in which the department achieved an historic $91,875,000 for Edward Hopper’s Chop Suey, still the record price for a work of American Art. Since then, Quincie has worked with the department on sourcing, appraising, researching, cataloging and selling property across both the private sale and auction channels and has been involved in the department’s most notable single-owner collection sales including but not limited to The T. Boone Pickens Collection, The Knobloch Collection, The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection, The Ted Shen Collection and importantly The Paul G. Allen Collection, which cemented several of the department’s world auction records including Andrew Wyeth’s Day Dream at $23,290,000. In the private sale context, Quincie has been involved in transactions for a wide range of artists up to the eight-figure price point and has experience with the placement of works in major institutions.
Emma Carrig
Cataloguer
1 212 707 5908
ecarrig@christies.com
New York
Emma Carrig is the cataloguer for the American Art department in New York. She is responsible for researching and cataloguing all property for auction and private sales. Before joining Christie's in 2022, Emma received her Bachelor's degree from New York University, where she studied Art History and Media, Culture and Communications.
Eric P. Widing
Deputy Chairman
ewiding@christies.com
New York
As Deputy Chairman and one-time head of our American Paintings Department, Eric Widing has worked at Christie’s for over twenty-five years. His interest in art started early, when at the age of eleven he purchased his first art book, an exhibition catalogue of the paintings of Andrew Wyeth. Prior to joining Christie’s, Mr. Widing worked for seventeen years as a dealer in American Art, including eleven years as the director of the Richard York Gallery. In 1998, he established his own gallery, Widing & Peck Fine Art, on East 66th Street. His gallery represented the estate of George Bellows and handled important American art from 1750 to 1950. In all, Mr. Widing has devoted 43 years to the American art business.

Mr. Widing’s responsibilities as Deputy Chairman focus primarily on the American Paintings Department. Additionally, he works closely with colleagues across many business categories at Christie’s.

During his tenure, Christie's American Paintings became a market leader in the field, establishing new world records for hundreds of artists in virtually every category of American art. In 2018, among major collections managed by Mr. Widing and the Christie’s team was the Collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller, which achieved $114,000,000 for its American art alone – a record immediately succeeded by the sale of American art from the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection, which achieved $323,103,500. Among the Ebsworth highlights was Hopper’s Chop Suey, which sold for $91,875,000, becoming the most expensive pre-war American artwork ever sold at auction. More recently, with the sale of American paintings included in the epic “Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection” sale, Mr. Widing and his team auctioned works by Andrew Wyeth, Georgia O’Keeffe, and many others. The American art in the collection realized $108,455,000.

Private sales also continue to play a major role in American art at Christie’s, encompassing both the sale of individual artworks and entire collections, often led by Mr. Widing. Perhaps most notably, he was one of the team of two which sold Thomas Eakins’ The Gross Clinic in 2006 for $68,000,000, still the highest private sale price ever achieved for a work of art of 19th-Century American Painting.

A recognized authority on American painting and sculpture, Mr. Widing is the author of a chapter entitled ‘Connoisseurship and Quality in American Art’ published in “American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship” (London, 2020). He has been quoted in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Antiques and The Arts Weekly, Art + Auction, Architectural Digest, Town & Country, The Art Newsletter, The Maine Antiques Digest, The Huffington Post and numerous other newspapers and magazines.

Mr. Widing has been interviewed by National Public Radio and has appeared on Bloomberg TV. He continues to be a frequent source of information on the American field. Mr. Widing has also lectured widely at museums across the country and on occasion to university students. He is a graduate of Williams College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the Karl E. Weston prize for his senior thesis in Art History.
Natalie Fisken
Sale Coordinator
+1 212 203 8310
nfisken@christies.com
New York
Natalie Fisken is the Sale Coordinator for the American Art department in New York, where she oversees the logistics and administrative operations for the department’s auctions and private sales. Prior to joining Christie’s in 2023, she graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans, where she double majored in Art History and Finance with a minor in Legal Studies.

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Eric P. Widing

Deputy Chairman

ewiding@christies.com

New York

As Deputy Chairman and one-time head of our American Paintings Department, Eric Widing has worked at Christie’s for over twenty-five years. His interest in art started early, when at the age of eleven he purchased his first art book, an exhibition catalogue of the paintings of Andrew Wyeth. Prior to joining Christie’s, Mr. Widing worked for seventeen years as a dealer in American Art, including eleven years as the director of the Richard York Gallery. In 1998, he established his own gallery, Widing & Peck Fine Art, on East 66th Street. His gallery represented the estate of George Bellows and handled important American art from 1750 to 1950. In all, Mr. Widing has devoted 43 years to the American art business.

Mr. Widing’s responsibilities as Deputy Chairman focus primarily on the American Paintings Department. Additionally, he works closely with colleagues across many business categories at Christie’s.

During his tenure, Christie's American Paintings became a market leader in the field, establishing new world records for hundreds of artists in virtually every category of American art. In 2018, among major collections managed by Mr. Widing and the Christie’s team was the Collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller, which achieved $114,000,000 for its American art alone – a record immediately succeeded by the sale of American art from the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection, which achieved $323,103,500. Among the Ebsworth highlights was Hopper’s Chop Suey, which sold for $91,875,000, becoming the most expensive pre-war American artwork ever sold at auction. More recently, with the sale of American paintings included in the epic “Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection” sale, Mr. Widing and his team auctioned works by Andrew Wyeth, Georgia O’Keeffe, and many others. The American art in the collection realized $108,455,000.

Private sales also continue to play a major role in American art at Christie’s, encompassing both the sale of individual artworks and entire collections, often led by Mr. Widing. Perhaps most notably, he was one of the team of two which sold Thomas Eakins’ The Gross Clinic in 2006 for $68,000,000, still the highest private sale price ever achieved for a work of art of 19th-Century American Painting.

A recognized authority on American painting and sculpture, Mr. Widing is the author of a chapter entitled ‘Connoisseurship and Quality in American Art’ published in “American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship” (London, 2020). He has been quoted in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Antiques and The Arts Weekly, Art + Auction, Architectural Digest, Town & Country, The Art Newsletter, The Maine Antiques Digest, The Huffington Post and numerous other newspapers and magazines.

Mr. Widing has been interviewed by National Public Radio and has appeared on Bloomberg TV. He continues to be a frequent source of information on the American field. Mr. Widing has also lectured widely at museums across the country and on occasion to university students. He is a graduate of Williams College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the Karl E. Weston prize for his senior thesis in Art History.

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