Cheyenne Westphal (born September 1967) is a German businesswoman who is the global chairwoman of auctioneers Phillips.
[2] Westphal joined Phillips from Sotheby’s where she served as Worldwide Head of Contemporary Art.
[9] Westphal brought a number of single-owner collections to market, including the Damien Hirst sale, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, which raised $200.7 million in 2008.
[10] This was followed by the $140 million Helga and Walther Lauffs Collection of Post-War European and American Art[11] and The Lenz Schoenberg Collection in 2010, yielding £23 million and setting nineteen auction records, many for art from the ZERO movement.
[12] In 1990, Westphal joined Sotheby’s[6] after graduating from University of St Andrews in Scotland and studying contemporary art under Professor Anne Wagner at UC Berkeley in California.