Christie's recently held The Visionary: The Paul Allen art Collection auction sale featured more than 150 works of art from 500 years of history, all inspired by Paul G. Allen's insatiable curiosity. The first auction with a total value of more than $1 billion took place on this historic occasion. The transaction introduced Microsoft co-founder and visionary philanthropist Allen to a number of ground-breaking artists. Paul allen christies Cezanne was paired with David Hockney in the celebrity-studded catalog, and Georges Seurat was paired with Jasper Johns. Allen accumulated all of the works in the sale over the course of more than 50 years and with a great love for art.

Soleil Voilé, Claude Monet's painting of the Waterloo Bridge, was among the auction's most recognisable pieces of art. Was a dreamy representation of London's South Bank's Waterloo Bridge that was painted between 1899 and 1903, and it sold for $64.5 million. When Monet first arrived in London in 1899, his hotel room had a view of the Thames. Immediately moved, Monet started a series of landscape paintings of London. The Collection art  of christie’s paul allen. The Thames, the river that courses through the city like its veins, was a recurring motif in all of his paintings. The picture depicts a number of scenarios that are reflected in the Thames that are either charming or melancholy, endlessly shifting and delicately diversified.

Georges Seurat's Les Poseuses, Ensemble (1888), which sold for a record $149.2 million, features three models in a studio with carefully sprinkled colors who appear to be waiting for the day's festivities to start. One of the first things Seurat drew was the main character. Her upright posture and mature, self-assured demeanor give the impression that she is a seasoned model with years of experience. One of Georges Seurat's most well-known paintings, La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), serves as the background. Seurat decided to paint a studio scene as a response to the criticism his well-known Plein air painting as a representation of society had received.