Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41. 4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008.

The highest auction record for the artist was set on November 6, 2007 at Christie's in New York, where a group of four paintings, " Les Quatre Saisons " ( the Four Seasons ) sold for $ 14, 601, 000 ( estimate $ 12, 000, 000-$ 18, 000, 000 ).

In December 2009, one copy sold at Christie's, New York for $ 662, 500, a record price paid for a work of American literature.

* The world's most expensive grand piano sold at auction was built by Steinway's factory in New York City in 1883 – 87 ; it sold for $ 1. 2 million in 1997 at Christie's in London.

In April 2006, Christie's New York auctioned Giudecca, La Donna Della Salute and San Giorgio, a view of Venice exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841, for US $ 35. 8 million, setting a new record for a Turner.

Christie's American branch in Rockefeller Center, New York

Christie's has its main headquarters in London King Street and in Rockefeller Plaza New York.

In 1977, Christie's opened a branch on New York's Park Avenue, with a salesroom accommodating about 600 people.

As of January 2009, Christie's had 85 offices ( not all are salesrooms ) 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.

* In 1998, Christie's in New York sold the famous Archimedes Palimpsest after the conclusion of a lawsuit in which its ownership was disputed.

Christie's International Real Estate have been involved with some of the world's most high profile residential property transactions including a New York Penthouse on Central Park West for a reported $ 88, 000, 000 as well as being linked with the sale of the Bulgari residences in London's exclusive area of Knightsbridge.

For example, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem filed a lawsuit in New York, decided in 1999, against Christie's Auction House, disputing the ownership of the Archimedes Palimpsest.

In 2007, Martin's Loving Love ( 2000 ) was sold for $ 2. 95 million at Christie's, New York.

A series of huge nude portraits from the mid-1990s depicted the very large Sue Tilley, or " Big Sue ", some using her job title of " Benefits Supervisor " in the title of the painting, as in his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which in May 2008 was sold by Christie's in New York for $ 33. 6 million, setting a world record auction price for a living artist.

Isaac Anderson in The New York Times Book Review of February 16, 1936 finished his review by stating, " This story is a baffler of the first water, written in Agatha Christie's best manner.

In April 2007, the Museum outbid New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art at a Christie's auction in acquiring a rare English cittern dating from the late 16th century, " This instrument is extremely rare, probably the only English cittern from the Renaissance known to survive ," Museum Director Andre Larson said.

His auction record is $ 1, 650, 500, set at Christie's, New York, for Sept 53 ( Balearic ), an oil and pencil on canvas, on 1 November 2011.

The transfer of programming to WNET was part of Governor Chris Christie's plan for New Jersey's exit from public broadcasting.

The remaining four restituted paintings were later sold at Christie's New York for over $ 190 million.

Judd's ten-unit sculpture Untitled, 1968 ( DSS 120 ) made of stainless steel and amber Plexiglas was sold for $ 4. 9 million at Christie's New York in 2009.

Christie's offered a reported $ 21 million guarantee and agreed to display the consigned work for five weeks in New York on the 20th floor of the Simon & Schuster building.

* An Important Private Collection of Works by Yves Tanguy ( 2001 ) Published by Christie's New York

In 2007, one of Kawaras " Date Paintings " was sold for $ 1. 8 million at Christie's New York.

Three Swedish auction houses are even older, and Sotheby's great rival in London and then New York, Christie's, dates back to 1759 or shortly after.

In October 2006, the six-foot Enterprise shooting miniature was auctioned in New York City at Christie's auction house, along with other models, props, costumes, and set pieces from the Star Trek franchise.

His image, Untitled ( Cowboy ), a " rephotograph " of a photograph taken originally by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first " rephotograph " to raise more than $ 1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie's New York in 2005.

Sold at Christie's London on 13th July 1913, purchased by the dealers Duveen Brothers of New York for 40, 000 guineas ($ 206, 850 ), then a record price for any work of art sold in London.

: They Came to Baghdad was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with Mallowan, and involves an archaeologist as the heroine's love interest.

Christie's Poirot was a francophone Belgian.

Unlike the models mentioned above, Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 but not published until 1920.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

In The Agatha Christie Hour, she was portrayed by British actress Angela Easterling, while in Agatha Christie's Poirot, she was portrayed by Pauline Moran.

In Agatha Christie's Poirot, Japp was portrayed by Philip Jackson.

The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.

It was sold at Christie's on 19 May 2005 for £ 420, 000 (£ 478, 400 including auction fees and taxes ) to David Gold, the then joint chairman of Birmingham City.

His top auction price was $ 20. 8 million which was set by his 1915 still life titled, Livre, pipe et verres, until Christie's Imp / Mod sale in November 2010, when " Violon et guitare " sold for $ 28. 6 million.

On December 4, 2006, one of Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster guitars with a sunburst design was sold at a Christie's auction for US $ 168, 000.

On 4 May 2010, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust was sold at Christie's for $ 106. 5 million.

Agatha Christie's book Ten Little Niggers was first published in London in 1939 and continued to appear under that title until the early 1980s, when it became And Then There Were None.

In addition, Ten Little Niggers ( 1939 ) was the original British title of Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None, which has also been known by the alternate title Ten Little Indians.

In June 2006, much of her estate was auctioned by Christie's to meet inheritance tax, though some of the items were sold in aid of charities such as the Stroke Association.

* On December 13 / 14, 2011 Elizabeth Taylor's complete jewelery collection was auctioned by Christie's.

During this period, one of his high-profile film roles was as Agatha Christie's Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express.

In 1997, it was sold at Christie's auction house in London for $ 1. 2 million, setting a price record for a piano sold at auction.

In 2005, a 14th century Chinese porcelain piece was sold by the Christie's for Pound sterling | £ 16 million, or US United States dollar | $ 28 million.