Stephen Lash is Chairman of Christie's, North and South America

Education:
BA in French Literature, Yale University
MBA, Columbia University Business School

Personal:
Married to Wendy Lasher
Two children

Background:
During more than 30 years with Christie's, Stephen has been involved with virtually every major historic/record-setting auction, including Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet, which sold for $82.5 million in 1990, and the Nicholas Brown desk, which sold for $12.1 million in 1989, still a record price for American furniture. An avid collector of trans-Atlantic passenger steamship memorabilia, Stephen was the founder and first president of the Ocean Liner Museum, now part of the South Street Seaport.  Items from his collection have been on loan to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as well as the Cooper Hewitt, Mystic Seaport, Peabody Essex and Forbes museums.

He began his career as an investment banker at S. G. Warburg.

Advisory Council Member, New York Landmarks Conservancy
President, American Friends of the Israel Museum 
Board member, National Buildings Museum in Washington
Board member, the Museum of the City of New York
Board member,  the New York City Preservation Council
Board member, the Council for a National Plan for Historic Preservation
Board member, Avon Old Farms School

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