Editing Rock paper scissors (section)

=== Auction house selection ===
[[Image:Les Grands Arbres au Jas de Bouffan, par Paul Cézanne, Yorck.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]]'s ''Large Trees Under the Jas de Bouffan'' sold for $11,776,000 at [[Christie's]] in 2005.<ref name="CityReview">[http://www.thecityreview.com/s05cimp1.html Art/Auctions logo, Impressionist & Modern Art, Christie's, 7 pm, May 4, 2005, Sale 1514] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127185532/http://www.thecityreview.com/s05cimp1.html |date=January 27, 2008 }}.</ref>]]
In 2005, when Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of Japanese television equipment manufacturer [[Maspro Denkoh]], decided to auction off the collection of [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] paintings owned by his corporation, including works by [[Paul Cézanne]], [[Pablo Picasso]], and [[Vincent van Gogh]], he contacted two leading auction houses, [[Christie's]] International and [[Sotheby's]] Holdings, seeking their proposals on how they would bring the collection to the market as well as how they would maximize the profits from the sale. Both firms made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive enough to earn Hashiyama's approval. Unwilling to split up the collection into separate auctions, Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves who would hold the auction, which included Cézanne's ''Large Trees Under the Jas de Bouffan'', estimated to be worth between $12 million to $16 million.

The houses were unable to reach a decision. Hashiyama told the two firms to play rock paper scissors to decide who would get the rights to the auction, explaining that "it probably looks strange to others, but I believe this is the best way to decide between two things which are equally good."

The auction houses had a weekend to come up with a choice of move. Christie's went to the 11-year-old twin daughters of the international director of Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Department Nicholas Maclean, who suggested "scissors" because "Everybody expects you to choose 'rock'." Sotheby's said that they treated it as a [[game of chance]] and had no particular strategy for the game, but went with "paper".<ref>{{Cite news
 | last =Vogel
 | first =Carol
 | title =Rock, Paper, Payoff: Child's Play Wins Auction House an Art Sale
 | newspaper =[[The New York Times]]
 | date =April 29, 2005
 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29scis.html
 | access-date =February 20, 2017
 | archive-date =March 9, 2015
 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150309052605/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29scis.html?
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 }}</ref> Christie's won the match and sold the $20 million collection, earning millions of dollars of commission for the auction house.