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Christie's and International
He served as chairman of Christie's International P. L. C.
The auction house's subsidiary Christie's International Inc. held its first sale in the United States in 1977, 13 years later than Sotheby's.
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.
* Christie's International Real Estate – Luxury Properties and Estates official website
The record price for a Stubbs painting was set by the sale at auction of Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey ( 1765 ) at Christie's International in London on July 5, 2011 for $ 36 million ( 22. 4 million pounds ).
" Collecting Phonographs and Gramaphones ", Christie's International Collectors Series, Mayflower Books, New York, 1980.
The picture was one of dozens from the collection of Gert Elfering that were sold at Christie's International in New York.

Christie's and Real
The plot is a spoof of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans from classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a form also parodied for the stage in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound.

Christie's and Estate
The house where the story is set was based on Christie's Devon home, Greenway House on the Greenway Estate.

Christie's and is
The travelling involved in the archaeology had a large influence on Christie's writing, which is often reflected as some type of transportation playing a part in her murderer ’ s schemes.
Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.
Very little mention is made in Christie's work about this part of his life, but in " The Nemean Lion " ( 1939 ) Poirot himself refers to a Belgian case of his in which " a wealthy soap manufacturer poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary ".
The detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature.
In Agatha Christie's Poirot, George is played by actor David Yelland.
Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.
Alongside Hercule Poirot, she is one of the most loved and famous of Christie's characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen.
The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's grandmother and her cronies, but there is no definitive source for the derivation of the name ' Marple '.
Christie's The Sittaford Mystery ( 1931 ) is set on Dartmoor and features an escaped prisoner.
The same joke-translation is mentioned in Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun by Patrick Redfern to Hercule Poirot – a prank which inadvertently gives Poirot the answer to the murder.
The band's fashion-sense has been seminal ; Simeon Lipman, head of pop culture at Christie's auction house, has commented that " Led Zeppelin have had a big influence on fashion because the whole aura surrounding them is so cool, and people want a piece of that ".
In the novel Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B. S. Johnson, Christie's girlfriend is referred to as the Shrike because she works in a butcher's shop.
* November 6 – Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None is published in book form in the United States.
** Christie's auctions a diamond known as Deepdene ; it is later found to be artificially colored.
In Agatha Christie's, " Appointment with Death " ( 1938 ), the mysterious and enigmatic Petra is the setting for a murder mystery featuring Hercule Poirot.
She is probably best known for her 1960s performances as Miss Marple in several films based loosely on Agatha Christie's novels.
The Fulton Opera House is home to its own actor's company, which stages seven theatrical productions per year including plays ( Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, 2007 ) and musicals ( Oliver !, 2006 ), some of which are world premier originals ( critically acclaimed Lightning Rod, 2005 ).
He is known for his role as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in the long-running British TV dramatic series Agatha Christie's Poirot.
Christie's is stepping into the Chinese market
Christie's is an art business and a fine arts auction house, and currently the world's largest with sales for the first half of 2012 some $ 3. 5 billion representing the highest total for a corresponding period in company and art market history.
Christie's main London salesroom is on King Street in St. James's, where it has been based since 1823.
Christie's South Kensington is one of the world's busiest auction rooms.

Christie's and owned
In November 2010, one of Yeats works, A Horseman Enters a Town at Night, painted in 1948 and previously owned by novelist Graham Greene, sold for nearly £ 350, 000 at a Christie's auction in London.
Richard Morgan, representing Christie's, said McCartney had provided no evidence that he had ever owned the piece of paper on which the lyrics were written.
With Bonhams, Christie's is a shareholder in the London-based Art Loss Register, a privately owned database used by law enforcement services worldwide to trace and recover stolen art.
Director Brian Kennedy said that, although it was due to be funded by the Australian government, it was " too close to the market ", since finance for the Brooklyn exhibition included $ 160, 000 from Saatchi, who owned the work, $ 50, 000 from Christie's, who had sold work for Saatchi, and $ 10, 000 from dealers of many of the artists.
At the time of her death it was reported that her estate was valued at 6 million pounds sterling, and that Prichard, who also owned the rights to Christie's record breaking play The Mousetrap, was principal heir.
Following Christie's death, the copyright for the play was owned by her daughter, Rosalind Hicks, who was unenthusiastic about the play as it was believed that the main character was based on her.
In December 2009, for example, a white Nudie stage shirt owned by Roy Rogers, decorated with blue tassels and red musical notes, sold for $ 16, 250 at a Christie's auction.

Christie's and leading
Christie's soon established a reputation as a leading auction house, and took advantage of London's new found status as the major centre of the international art trade after the French Revolution.
Christie's performance generated Oscar buzz, leading the distributor, Lions Gate Entertainment, to buy the film at the festival to release the film in 2007 to build momentum during the awards season.

Christie's and international
In 1995, Christie's became the first international auction house to exhibit works of art in Beijing, China.
Lord Halifax is a non-executive director of Hambros Bank, Vice-Chairman of Christie, Manson & Woods, the European Division of Christie's international fine arts auctioneers, and a director of Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd.
At various times in her life Kempner worked as a contributing editor for French Vogue, a fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar, a design consultant for Tiffany & Co. and an international representative of the auction house Christie's.

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