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In 1766, a young Scotsman, James Christie, established his first permanent auction rooms at 83\u201384 Pall Mall in London. His first auction in these rooms included a pair of sheets, two pillowcases, two po\u2019s and four pieces of Indian glassware. At his next auction, a bespoke coffin, which the recently recovered consignor no longer required, was sold alongside live pigs and poultry. With his characteristic ingenuity, Christie soon shifted the focus from practical items and general household goods to objects of desire and beauty. <\/span><\/p>

Less than six months later, on 20 March 1767, he held his first auction devoted entirely to paintings.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>

It was not just the nature of his sales that set Christie apart: he transformed the atmosphere, brought greater transparency to the auction process and adopted a new approach to holding auctions. Before Christie, auctions were largely mundane affairs \u2013 the auctioneer\u2019s role was viewed purely as administrative. Christie turned auctioning into an art form. For Christie, auctioning was a performance; his Rostrum was his stage, and he was rewarded with success. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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James Christie\u2019s 50-year-old foundation has helped to build a sustainable business <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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When he died in 1803, James Christie had held many notable auctions during his 50-year career, which he had begun in the early 1750s with the auctioneer Mr Annesely in Covent Garden. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>

Christie\u2019s engaging charisma forged close friendships with the intellectual, aristocratic and artistic elite of his time. In 1778, Christie acted as broker in the company\u2019s very first private sale: the collection of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain\u2019s first \u2018prime minister\u2019, to Empress Catherine the Great. It was also during this period that James Christie began organising single-owner sales, using the consignor\u2019s reputation to stimulate interest in and the successful sale of their collection. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Christie\u2019s Brussels was founded 50 years ago on the enduring foundations, principles and values that James Christie established and put into practice for his auction house 260 years ago.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>

Over the past five decades, Christie\u2019s Brussels has been commissioned to auction many important Belgian private and corporate collections. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>

Recently, in March 2026, Christie\u2019s Brussels auctioned works from the collection of Roger and Josette Vanthournout. A Belgian couple whose shared passion for art shaped their collecting over more than sixty years. Roger, trained in design and decoration, approached art with an architect\u2019s eye; Josette, a painter with a refined sense of colour and composition, brought an artist\u2019s sensitivity to every purchase. Together, they embodied the Belgian tradition of openness to the outside world \u2013 a spirit rooted in the country\u2019s history as a cultural and commercial crossroads. Their taste was constantly evolving: early interests in Chinese ceramics and Flemish Expressionism gave way to Surrealism, Minimalism and leading movements in post-war European and American art. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>

Parts of the Proximus corporate collection \u2013 a selection of 70 works \u2013 were sold in 2024, and the proceeds were used to fund further acquisitions, with a particular focus on digital art and young artists at the start of their careers.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>

In 2022, the Le Jeune collection went under the hammer, including a magnificent painting by Luc Tuymans, which now hangs at La Bourse du Commerce in Paris, home to the Pinault collection. The Pinault family has owned Christie\u2019s since 1998. <\/span><\/p>

In early 2016, part of the art collection belonging to the renowned Belgian minimalist architect Marc Corbiau was sold at Christie\u2019s in London. He had built up an impressive art collection of international standing, featuring works by renowned artists such as Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, Donald Judd, Robert Mangold, Richard Serra, Frank Stella and Jan Schoonhoven. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>

In 1999, St\u00e9phane Janssen\u2019s collection of contemporary art was auctioned. Many of the works on offer had previously been on display at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, which had dedicated the very first exhibition to this major private collection in 1986. Janssen bought his first work of art in 1952, at the age of 16, in Oscar Dominguez\u2019s studio in the south of France for a sum equivalent to \u20ac25 today. When his partner died in 1993, St\u00e9phane Janssen could no longer continue collecting in the same way; it made him too sad, which resulted in the sale of many works. He then turned his attention to photography and built up an impressive new collection. <\/span><\/p>

In 1803, James Christie\u2019s son, James Christie II (1773\u20131831), took over the running of the business, and in 1823 he moved Christie\u2019s head office to 8 King Street, where it has been based ever since. The longest house auction in history took place in 1848 at Stowe House, when the <\/span>the 2nd<\/span> Duke of Buckingham and Chandos had spectacularly increased his inherited debts until the annual interest payments exceeded his income; he commissioned Christie\u2019s to hold a 40-day auction of his property. <\/span><\/p>

In Belgium, Christie\u2019s Brussels was commissioned by Paul de Grande when he sold items from his Snellegem Castle in 1995. Two years later, a house auction was held at Rumbeke Castle, one of the oldest Renaissance castles in Belgium. <\/span><\/p>

In 2004, Christie\u2019s Brussels organised the most recent estate sale in Belgium at Van\u2019s-Gravenwezel Castle, when Axel Vervoordt selected 1,000 items from his incredible collection for the auction. Most estate sales are prompted by a move. In Axel Vervoordt\u2019s case, the opposite was true. After the auction, which was more like a huge open-house festival at the ch\u00e2teau, he remained an antiquarian through and through. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the 1970s, Christie\u2019s demonstrated that the founder\u2019s innovative spirit remained a driving force within the company, which was by then 200 years old. In 1968, Christie\u2019s opened its first auction house outside the United Kingdom in Geneva, primarily for the sale of jewellery, and established an office in Paris in the former studio of Max Ernst. The 1970s were a period of major expansion, during which offices and auction rooms were opened in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Brussels, Jakarta, Stockholm, Singapore, Monaco, Kuala Lumpur, Madrid, Seoul and New York, with a full-scale auction room following in 1977. Today, Christie\u2019s has a presence in 46 countries. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The art market experienced tremendous growth in the 1970s. Since the end of the 18th century, the vast majority of buyers at Christie\u2019s auctions had been gallery owners and art dealers. Now, private collectors were also beginning to attend the auctions. In 1973 alone, turnover rose by 70 per cent compared with the previous year. In 1970, Vel\u00e1zquez\u2019s Portrait of Juan de Pareja was sold in London for \u00a32,310,000 to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It was the first work to be sold at auction for more than \u00a31,000,000. <\/p>

Fifty years later, in 2025, Christie\u2019s annual turnover stood at $6.2 billion, of which $4.7 billion came from auction sales and $1.5 billion from private sales. The best-performing department is the one that James Christie first established in 1768: the modern and contemporary art department, which alone generated $2.8 billion, followed by the luxury department with $800 million, including the highest price ever paid for a piece of jewellery at auction: $25.6 million for the Mellon Blue diamond. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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