Art works from Microsoft founder Paul Allen's collection fetches $1.6B - Fox Business

Major works of creation that were owned by the precocious Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen went for large bucks astatine a two-day Christie's auction.

Included were works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh.

The auction brought successful a record-breaking $1.6 billion.

All 155 of the artworks enactment up for auction Wednesday and Thursday successful New York sold, and 5 paintings sold for prices supra $100 million.

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Staff bent a Claude Monet 1904 coating 'Waterloo Bridge, temps couvert', for show astatine Christie's successful London. ((AP Photo/Sang Tan, File) / AP Newsroom)

Georges Seurat’s pointillist "Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)" sold for $149.2 million, Wednesday evening's highest price. 

Christie's experts said that pointillism, a method erstwhile it was developed by Seurat and Paul Signac involving dots of colour that harvester to signifier an image, was of peculiar involvement to Allen due to the fact that of his computer background.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma successful 2018.  (REUTERS/Richard Clement / Reuters Photos)

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Other highlights from Wednesday's merchantability included Paul Cézanne’s "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire," which sold for $137.8 million, and van Gogh's scenery "Verger avec cyprès," which sold for $117.2 million.

"La Montagne Sainte-Victoire" by Paul Cezanne, an lipid connected canvas from the Paul G. Allen Collection.  ((Christie's/Courtesy of the Paul G. Allen Estate via AP, File) / AP Newsroom)

Topping the income Thursday was Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen's sculpture, "Typewriter Eraser, Scale X," which fetched $8.4 million.

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All proceeds volition benefit philanthropies chosen by Allen's estate.

Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his puerility person Bill Gates, died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma successful 2018. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report