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After two years in New York, Christie’s Alexandre Carel will return to Paris as a postwar and contemporary specialist.

The French-born Carel  joined the department in Paris in 2006, and was promoted to the New York office in 2008. He was instrumental in organizing the First Open sales, and helped obtain consignments including Tamara de Lempicka’s Portrait de Madame M which achieved a world record price at $6,130,500, and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Mater which sold for $5,850,500.

Carel  holds a B.A. in Finance and Strategy from the Institut d’Etude Politique in Paris. Carel will work with Laetitia Baudouin, head of sales, and Christophe Durand-Ruel, senior specialist (and heir to the famed French art dealing family) and other members of the team.