Christie's Sold $1.4 Billion Worth of Art in Just Three Days By Notable Life By Notable LifeView Author|May 14, 2015| Christie's made a major splash this week when it was announced that the famed auction house had sold a Rothko abstract for $82 million one day after rival Sotheby's fetched $46.5 million for an upside down Ukrainian flag by the same artist.... View this article.