CHRISTIE'S

Christie's



Christie's Fine Arts Auction House

Introduction

Christie's is the world's largest art business which was founded by James Christie in London, England. The founder conducted the first sale on December 5th, 1766. The Christie's earned a great reputation and now it is among the leading auction houses across the world. It even made the steady growth of around forty percent of the auction market and has been growing rapidly since 1989.

The Christie's holds the regular auctions across the world and has the principal selling centers at London and New York. This is the oldest fine arts auctioneers worldwide. It has been into the business for more than two hundred years. It does not only deal with the arts but it deals with the scientific instruments, photographs, cameras, carpet, teddy bears, photographs and wine.

The Christie's has made the authoritative valuations since 1766. Christie's has streamlined its processes which ensure every aspect of valuation, recognizing and accommodating the various distinctive needs. It has also streamlined its operations around some of its valuable services which are as following:

Auction Estimates: the company reacts steadily to prospective sales valuations through the differing categories and large collections of collectables in a house.

Art Tax and Heritage Advice: this ensures provide the tax related valuations that may include the tax planning. This special department is made to deal with the professional advisors and private clients to ensure the efficient and effective services to the clients.

Insurance Valuations: the company also offers the insurance valuations of arts and collecting categories.

Removal and Storage: the company also ensures the arrangements for insuring, shipping and packing of different fine arts collectibles. It provides the bidding facilities to the estates that are not suitable for the direct sales.

Collection Management: the company has the collection management system that manages and records the collectibles through the integrated systems of the valuation services.

Appraisals and the Internal Revenue Services: the company provides the extensive appraisals when meeting with the USPAP guidelines and IRS standards.

Christie's has the international business and has international corporate art collections team that is dedicated to advise corporate clients at all the levels that include international level, national level and the regional level. Christie's has the unique strategies that combine distinctive expertise and scholarship with the corporate setting to meet with the customized needs of the clients. This is how it maintains the brand integrity. The Christie's provides the expert services in order to reactively and proactively manage the transition of collections to their clients.

The company facilitates the complete process from the beginning till the end which comprises the expertise of experts in each process, setting up the bidding process, arranging the special payment methods, and special assistance in shipping. Christie's proves auction services and customized sales proposals to meet with the specific and distinctive needs of various clients. Christie's also arranges the social and educational events for the patrons in its various international galleries. They also provide the benefit auctioneers for the fund raising ...