She was a guide at the National Gallery of Victoria for several years, then assisted Patrick McCaughey with research at 'Monash University,[2] and was a gallery director and major supporter of contemporary Australian art in Melbourne from the 1970s,[3] after her marriage to husband Daryl (born 1935), with whom she had three sons Guy, Damian and Ari.
[4] Artist Lenton Parr said of Christine that she valued art "as a gift to the spirit and a source of pleasure and enlightenment,"[5] while then director of the National Gallery of Australia, Betty Churcher valued her generosity and enthusiasm, saying she "provided Melbourne with a space and an intellectual climate for some of the most interesting contemporary art from both Australia and overseas.
"[6] Abrahams was Manager of Powell Street Gallery between 1976 and 1980 (the lessees were Melbourne solicitor Harry Curtis and a Caulfield doctor, David Rosenthal).
"[2]In summing up the year 1980, critic Brigid Cole-Adams described Axiom as a "good more conventional gallery with interesting contemporary work including both abstract and new realist styles.
[56] After Christine's premature death at age 55 from cancer[6] on 15 September 1994,[5][117][118] the gallery was operated by her son Guy Abrahams, who had been co-director since 1987.