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Sotheby’s banks on its galleries

The chairman and chief executive of Sotheby’s, Bill Ruprecht, has said that the auction house’s plan to open another private gallery space in London this autumn will help to boost earnings... MORE

Published online: 11 May 2013

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Record set for Soutine

Chaim Soutine’s Le Petit Pâtissier sold for $18m to a Japanese buyer

Published online: 09 May 2013

Collector says Sotheby’s sold him Nazi-owned art—now it's unsellable

Uncertainty over whether the work, once owned by Goering, was looted means that auction houses don't want to put it on the block

Published online: 02 May 2013

Christie’s owner returns Chinese bronzes

François Pinault is handing back two heads, of a rat and a rabbit, that came to auction as part of the collection Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé

Published online: 26 April 2013

New York’s Folk Art Museum to turn over more than 200 works for auction

Sotheby’s is due to sell off the collection of the museum’s former chairman Ralph Esmerian to cover his debts, despite complaints from Christie’s

Published online: 25 April 2013

Souvenirs of London’s most elegant man

Sotheby’s to sell contents of Mark Birley’s house

Published online: 18 March 2013

Gallery

Gallery: New York Old Master auctions preview slideshow

Every year it gets worse. Each January, Sotheby’s and Christie’s New York hold their annual Old Master blowout. And every year, they cram their competing sales into shrinking time periods, making it impossible for anyone to attend a paintings sale without missing a drawings sale and vice versa. Twelve sales (eight at Sotheby’s and four at Christie’s) are, with one exception, shoehorned into three days—30 and 31 January and 1 February.

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