The art collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who died in 2018, will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York in November, the auction house announced, valuing it at more than $1 billion, an all-time record. AFP reports, Agepres reports.

More than 150 works will be put up for sale, including French artist Paul Cézanne’s “Mount Sainte-Victoire,” estimated at more than $100 million, the report said.

All proceeds from the sale will be donated to charity, according to Christie’s.

Paul Allen, who died of cancer in 2018 at the age of 65, co-developed with Bill Gates the operating system for personal computers that would ensure the success of Microsoft, founded in 1975.

He left the group in 1983 due to health problems and deteriorating relations with Bill Gates, who remained at the helm of the group until 2000.

The current record for a private collection was set in the spring by the American couple Harry and Linda Macklow, who collected $922 million at several Sotheby’s auctions.

In addition to Cézanne, Paul Allen’s collection also has a painting by the American artist Jasper Johns “Little False Start”, estimated at more than 50 million dollars, according to the New York Times.

Christie’s has not released other parts of the collection, but a traveling exhibition organized in 2016, starting with the Paul Allen collection, gives an idea of ​​its richness.

This included paintings by Monet, Manet, Bruegel the Younger, Klimt, Hockney and Richter.