Last night, the first 60 pieces from his prestigious painting collection, which featured pieces by Cezanne and Seurat, went under the hammer at Christie s Rockefeller Center in New York.
An art collection is tipped to break the $1 billion barrier at auction for the first time when Christie's sells works belonging to late Microsoft co-founder
The 150 works, to be sold Wednesday and Thursday at Christie's Manhattan headquarters, trace over 500 years of art history, from Botticelli and Canaletto to Georgia O'Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, via Claude Monet, Francis Bacon and Edward Hopper