
Max Carter is the Global Chairman of 20th and 21st Century Art, overseeing the sales, strategy and international team of experts for Impressionist and Modern Art, Post-War and Contemporary Art, American Paintings, Latin American Art, Design, Photographs, Prints and Multiples and Modern British Art. He joined Christie’s in 2007 and served as Head of Impressionist and Modern Art for five years of historic success from 2017-2022. Max has been instrumental in Christie’s leadership in masterpieces and collections. He has led many of the greatest collection sales of all time, including Anne Bass, Paul Allen, S.I. Newhouse and Mica Ertegun, and through his creativity and conviction he has shattered records for masterpieces across categories, from Seurat to Ruscha.
A native New Yorker, Max has reviewed more than 150 books on art, archaeology, history, literature and music for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Air Mail and The Washington Post. He has written on Egyptology, the ancient wonders, the Parthenon Marbles, the Rosetta Stone, Indian miniatures, Holbein, Titian, Bernini, Vermeer, Gainsborough, Fuseli, Goya, Pissarro, Cezanne, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Hilma af Klint, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Mondrian, Malevich, Picasso, Hopper, Tatlin, Duchamp, de Chirico, Man Ray, Nevelson, Dalí, Newman, Varo, Carrington, Freud and Celia Paul. Max read Classics and English at Merton College, Oxford and earned an MBA and MA in Asian Studies from Columbia
A native New Yorker, Max has reviewed more than 150 books on art, archaeology, history, literature and music for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Air Mail and The Washington Post. He has written on Egyptology, the ancient wonders, the Parthenon Marbles, the Rosetta Stone, Indian miniatures, Holbein, Titian, Bernini, Vermeer, Gainsborough, Fuseli, Goya, Pissarro, Cezanne, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Hilma af Klint, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Mondrian, Malevich, Picasso, Hopper, Tatlin, Duchamp, de Chirico, Man Ray, Nevelson, Dalí, Newman, Varo, Carrington, Freud and Celia Paul. Max read Classics and English at Merton College, Oxford and earned an MBA and MA in Asian Studies from Columbia




















































