COLLECTOR/CONNOISSEUR: The Max N. Berry Collection; American Art Evening Sale

Paige Kestenman, a Specialist in Christie’s American Art department, is responsible for sourcing and sale curation for the American Art auctions in New York. Paige regularly provides clients with market updates, valuations and proposals for sale, and she works with a wide array of collectors on both auction and private sale acquisitions.

Since joining Christie’s in 2013, Paige has worked on several important consignments by American Modernist masters, including the world-record Abstraction by Marsden Hartley ($6.7 million), Edward Hopper’s Windy Day ($1.2 million) and Norman Lewis’s Street Scene (a record for a figurative work by the artist at $440,000). Other notable auction sales include Boston School Impressionist Frank Weston Benson’s The Reader ($2.9 million), iconic illustrator Norman Rockwell’s The Christmas Coach ($1 million) and Hudson River School painter Sanford Robinson Gifford’s Mansfield Nose ($519,000). Paige has also assisted clients with private treaty transactions for artists ranging from Rockwell, Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence and Andrew Wyeth to John Singer Sargent and George Inness.

Paige earned her Masters in History of Art and Art World Practice: Art, Style and Design with Distinction from Christie’s Education London. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University with High Honors and is a member of the Sigma Xi Research Society and Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Tylee Abbott serves as Vice President and Head of the American Art department. In addition to overseeing the department, he assists clients with all aspects of art collecting, from acquisition and sales to appraisals.

With a particular affinity for Western American Art, Tylee has played key roles in Christie’s marquee single owner auctions The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection and Visions of the West: American Paintings from the William I. Koch Collection. Notable auction results within these collections include Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, N.C. Wyeth among others. Tylee has also contributed meaningfully to noteworthy results for artists ranging from Alfred Jacob Miller to Victor Higgins and Rebecca Salsbury James.

Prior to joining Christie’s, Tylee held roles across the art world, including with another major New York auction company, as an independent art advisor, and at private galleries. He has also authored over 50 articles on the American and Western American Art markets. Tylee holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Business from Franklin & Marshall College and a Masters in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London.

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.