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Modern American Art

Modern American Art

Sale Overview

Christie’s Modern American Art auction on 17 April will feature a strong selection of early 20th-century paintings, drawings and sculpture by leading masters of the Stieglitz Circle, Regionalism, Ashcan School and beyond. Headlining the sale are several extraordinary collections including Property from the Pick-Hines Collectionled by Jacob Lawrence’s celebratory Flower Woman alongside several paintings by the unparalleled Georgia O’Keeffe. Property from a Distinguished American Collection includes top-quality examples by masters Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove and Thomas Hart Benton. The sale is strongly represented by noteworthy female modernists from O’Keeffe to Henrietta Shore, Helen Torr and more. American illustration will also be highlighted with examples by Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and others.

The sale exhibition will open at Rockefeller Center on Thursday, 10 April as part of the Modern New York sale week.

Auction times
17 Apr 10:00 AM (EDT) Lots 1-100

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Quincie Dixon

Quincie Dixon

Associate Specialist, Head of Sale | American Art

Quincie Dixon, Associate Specialist, Head of Sale, is responsible for running Christie’s dedicated American Art auctions and serving her private and institutional clients with their art collecting, selling and appraisal needs. Quincie has worked in the art and auction field concentrating in American Art for nearly ten years and has been quoted in several financial and art market news outlets. She graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor’s degree in Art History.

Prior to joining Christie’s, Quincie worked for another major auction house as well as a prominent American Art dealer. She joined the Christie’s American Art department in 2018 as a Cataloguer when her first auction was the record-breaking sale of The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection in which the department achieved an historic $91,875,000 for Edward Hopper’s Chop Suey, still the record price for a work of American Art. Since then, Quincie has worked with the department on sourcing, appraising, researching, cataloging and selling property across both the private sale and auction channels and has been involved in the department’s most notable single-owner collection sales including but not limited to The T. Boone Pickens Collection, The Knobloch Collection, The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection, The Ted Shen Collection and importantly The Paul G. Allen Collection, which cemented several of the department’s world auction records including Andrew Wyeth’s Day Dream at $23,290,000. In the private sale context, Quincie has been involved in transactions for a wide range of artists up to the eight-figure price point and has experience with the placement of works in major institutions.

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