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Tariffs and new anti-trafficking rules took their toll in the US and Europe this year, as attention and investment shifted to the Middle East
The $6.7m New York sale of the film star's prized possessions closed out a successful season for the auction house
Projected revenue at both auction houses is up from 2024, at $7bn for Sotheby's and $6.2bn at Christie's, with high-profile transactions increasingly taking place behind closed doors
Netting a solid $133.4m total, the first Sotheby’s live sale in Abu Dhabi is described by the house as the largest debut for any new market in its history
Sotheby's sold “Parisian Novels” for $62m and “The Sower” for over $10m, a record for one of his drawings
The final evening auction of New York’s marquee autumn sales featured a bevvy of bidding on Surrealist works and a $62.7m Van Gogh
The $706m total for the night included a white-glove sale of 24 lots from the collection of late cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder
Owned by the cosmetics king Leonard Lauder, the work could become the most expensive Van Gogh drawing ever sold
Estimates are up by more than 40% over last year’s November sales, driven in large part by Sotheby’s consignments
Thomas S. Kaplan’s Leiden Collection will part with one of its earliest acquisitions, “Young Lion Resting”, at Sotheby’s in February
The 18-karat gold sculpture, another edition of which was used by thousands at the Guggenheim Museum, returns to the spotlight at Sotheby's
Peter Doig’s ‘Ski Jacket’ soared over its estimate to achieve £106.9m at Christie’s, but overall lower estimates and price corrections revealed a mixed picture
‘Crowns (Peso Neto)’ (1981) is estimated to fetch between $35m and $40m
The sale will help the auction house pay down debt, chief executive Charles F. Stewart told staff in an internal email
El Sueňo is from a major Surrealist collection being sold at Sotheby's New York this November
Specialists estimate the collections could collectively bring in around $520m during the upcoming auctions in New York this autumn
The move will allow the fair to grow significantly, from around 30 exhibitors to around 50
The auction house will hold a series of live sales in the emirate this December featuring sports cars, jewellery and handbags
After the Indian culture ministry intervened to halt a sale of the Piprahwa gems, Sotheby’s has sold the trove to a Mumbai conglomerate
It is the most expensive handbag ever sold at auction
A landscape that includes economic volatility, generational movement and new technology is changing the rules of engagement
The Old Master sale on Wednesday night totalled £14.5m, led by a record price of £2.7m for Florentine artist Lorenzo di Credi
Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution
The auction totalled £62.5m—down 25% year-on-year—but Sotheby's says it is committed to holding June sales in London despite a beleaguered post-Brexit market
Bristol city council hopes to raise the money in just seven days
The pair of works are now worth £1m, with one soon coming up for sale at Sotheby’s
New renderings show the subtle interventions the auction house is making to its new Manhattan locale ahead of the marquee autumn auctions in November
The painting goes to the block ahead of Oasis's much anticipated reunion tour later this summer—perfect timing, some might say
The London sales of mostly Surrealist art have the highest estimate ever placed on a single collection by the auction house in Europe
