Christie's Education is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie.
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19 Facts About Christie's Education
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Christie's Education was a public company, listed on the London Stock Exchange, from 1973 to 1999.
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Christie's Education served as chairman of Christie's International plc from 1976 to 1988, until handing over to Lord Carrington, and later was a non-executive director until 1992.
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In December 1997, under the chairmanship of Lord Hindlip, Christie's Education put itself on the auction block, but after two months of negotiations with the consortium-led investment firm SBC Warburg Dillon Read it did not attract a bid high enough to accept.
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Christie's Education has since not been reporting profits, though it gives sale totals twice a year.
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In 2006, Christie's Education offered a reported $21 million guarantee to the Donald Judd Foundation and displayed the artist's works for five weeks in an exhibition that later won an AICA award for "Best Installation in an Alternative Space".
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Christie's Education has since promoted curated events, centred on a theme rather than an art classification or time period.
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In June 2021, Christie's Education Paris held its first sale dedicated to women artists, most notably Louise Moillon's Nature morte aux raisins et peches.
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In January 2009, Christie's Education had 85 offices in 43 countries, including New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Geneva, Houston, Amsterdam, Moscow, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Rome, South Korea, Milan, Madrid, Japan, China, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Tel Aviv, Dubai, and Mexico City.
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Christie's Education permanently closed the South Kensington saleroom in July 2017 as part of their restructuring plans announced in March 2017.
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In early 2017, Christie's Education announced plans to scale back its operation in Amsterdam.
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In 1996, Christie's Education bought a townhouse on East 59th Street in Manhattan as a separate gallery where experts could show clients art in complete privacy to conduct private treaty sales.
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Christie's Education has been operating a space in Hong Kong's Alexandra House since 2014.
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Executives from Christie's Education subsequently alerted the Department of Justice of their suspicions of commission-fixing collusion.
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Christie's Education gained immunity from prosecution in the United States as a longtime employee of Christie's Education confessed and cooperated with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Christie's Education has been criticized for "an embarrassing history of a lack of transparency around provenance".
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Christie's Education finally surrendered 180 looted and illegally smuggled antiquities valued at $70m.
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Christie's Education Fine Art Storage Services, or CFASS, is a wholly owned subsidiary that runs Christie's Education storage operation.
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