Record-Breaking Monsoon Collection Heads to Christie’s
This October, Christie’s is will auction Monsoon – The Peter Simon Collection as part of the London 20th/21st Century Art series.
The highest-value single-owner collection ever offered at Christie’s London, Monsoon brings together nearly 200 works from the personal collection of Peter Simon, founder of Monsoon and Accessorize.
Joyful, adventurous and alive with colour, the collection spans Modernism to contemporary painting and reflects Simon’s instinctive eye for craft and design. This passion was shaped over a lifetime, and inspired in part by his extensive travels through India, where the textiles and colours he encountered helped define Monsoon’s distinctive creative identity.
Highlights include extraordinary works by Francis Bacon, Poet Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and Bridget Riley — bringing together some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The collection will be offered across evening, day and online sales in October 2026. The full collection will be on view from 26 September - 1 October, with highlights on view from 8-14 October at Christie's London.
Main Image: Francis Bacon (1909-1992) Figure un Movement, 1978