Andrea Fiuczynski
President
Christie’s Los Angeles
 Andrea Fiuczynski, one of Christie’s star auctioneers and formerly Director of European Furniture and Valuations based in Berlin, relocated to Los Angeles in May 1997 to join the Management Team of the new Christie’s Los Angeles office. As Senior Vice President and Director of Business Development, Ms. Fiuczynski was responsible for the cultivation of new business in the Western states and oversaw the new West Coast Headquarters and sales operations. She was appointed President of Christie’s Los Angeles in January 2001, and in this capacity, continues to oversee the management of this office and saleroom, as well as cultivate new business. Ms. Fiuczynski also serves as Christie’s Los Angeles’ principal auctioneer.
Ms. Fiuczynski is a specialist in 16th through 19th century European furniture, works of art and tapestries. With a degree in fine arts, Ms. Fiuczynski started her career at Christie’s New York in the French and Continental Furniture Department in 1985. She was promoted to senior specialist in 1989 and was appointed head of the department in 1990. With Christie’s expansion in Germany, Ms. Fiuczynski was appointed director of European Furniture and Valuations at Christie’s Berlin in 1995. In this role, Ms. Fiuczynski was responsible for business development in Northern and Continental Europe for the firm’s London, Amsterdam and Monaco salerooms. Ms. Fiuczynski spearheaded the launch in Germany of Christie’s insurance valuation services and the ensuing development of the Valuations Department based at Christie’s Berlin, servicing Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.
As one of Christie’s international auctioneers, Ms. Fiuczynski has presided over many notable and high-profile sales throughout her career, such as the Mauerbach Benefit Sale in Vienna in 1996 and the historically unprecedented sale of the Collections of the Princes Reuss j.L. in the new Federal States of Germany in 1998. More recently she has been instrumental in the success of the 2003 sale of Playboy at 50: Selections from the Archives, a sale celebrating the magazine’ golden anniversary and the magnificent 2004 sale of The C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection, a series of sales that was 99% sold by value across the board. Ms. Fiuczynski is greatly involved with the company on an international level but is always on the pulse of activity at Christie’s Los Angeles. In her own saleroom she has presided over Christie’s inaugural West Coast house sales – The Katherine H. Haley Trust sold in situ at Rancho Mi Solar in Ojai in 2000 and The Duquette Collections in Los Angeles in 2001, to name a couple. Highly regarded in the international marketplace, Ms. Fiuczynski also provides her auctioneering services to charities throughout the United States and Europe. She frequently lectures at museums and hosts a series of mock auctions for the advisory community and educational institutions. Ms. Fiuczynski is fluent in German and French.
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