Dmitry Rybolovlev: Oligarch Loses $160 Million Sotheby’s Art Fraud Case
The Russian billionaire/art collector Dmitry Rybolovlev has lost his legal battle with Sotheby’s. A U.S. jury sided with the auction house…
31 January 2024
The Russian billionaire/art collector Dmitry Rybolovlev has lost his legal battle with Sotheby’s. A U.S. jury sided with the auction house…
31 January 2024
In the off-grid sanctuary of the art world, where masterpieces change hands for astronomical sums and money is no object, a legal saga is unfolding
5 January 2024
A small nocturne portraying a Biblical scene has emerged from the shadows of history to be attributed as an authentic masterpiece by the Dutch master, Rembrandt.
5 October 2023
It’s been five years since Banksy orchestrated one of the most sensational stunts in art history: the shredding of his celebrated painting, ‘Girl With Balloon’, at Sotheby’s in 2018.
4 October 2023
The iconic 1966 brutalist building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, designed by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer will be the new home of auctioneers Sotheby’s.
3 June 2023
US Cracks Down On Christie’s And Sotheby’s Russian Money Laundering – Damien Hirst Quietly Donates £8m To NHS – Anish Kapoor Unveils New York ‘Bean Style’ Public Monument
6 February 2023
Sotheby’s is to offer ‘Dance On The Beach’ an important panel by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch It is estimated to fetch around £12-20m.
16 January 2023
Russian Art Activist Pyotr Pavlensky London Exhibition – Queen Elizabeth II Fourth Plinth Takeover – Sex Pistols Sotheby’s Auction
22 September 2022
Documenta Director Sabine Schormann Resigns Over Antisemitism Row – Sotheby’s Sell $2.5m Tables Made From Asbestos – Complete Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné To Be Published
18 July 2022
The Royal College of Art (RCA), London, has been ranked the number 1 university for art & design internationally for… Read More
6 April 2022
Last November’s Sotheby’s sale of 35 works from The Macklowe Collection was nothing less than historic, realising $676.1 million, the… Read More
18 February 2022
Following the success of Sotheby’s inaugural NFT sales in 2021, which to date have achieved $100 million since launching less… Read More
9 February 2022
The Royal Academy of Arts has elected three new Royal Academicians: Michael Armitage, in the category of Painting, Peter Barber,… Read More
27 January 2022
It’s been a big year for the three major international auction houses with record sales and new developments in digital technology.
22 December 2021
Art Market, Auction, News, NFT
Sotheby’s Goes PLC After $7.3b Bumper Year – Omicron Variant Postpones TEFAF Maastricht Fair – Sally Mann Wins 9th Prix Pictet
16 December 2021
Harry Macklowe, a billionaire property developer from New York and his ex wife Linda are auctioning their collection.
8 November 2021
A neo-dadaist painting by Banksy, which shredded itself at a Sotheby’s auction has sold for a record £16 million.
14 October 2021
Warhol Portrait Of Basquiat Auctioned – Botticelli Christ Leads $40m Estimate At Sotheby’s – Christie’s Record Contemporary Achieves Highest Total
7 October 2021
A portrait by the English figurative painter Lucian Freud depicting his friend David Hockney has sold for £14.9 million ($20.7 million) with buyer’s premium at London’s Sotheby’s.
29 June 2021
The event was a travesty of everything the Colony stood for, organised by people who thought they could recreate a special place.
24 June 2021
Art Movers: Leon Black Departs MoMa – Amy Cappellazzo Quits Sotheby’s – England’s Creative Coast
29 April 2021
Nan Goldin Harassed By Sackler PI – Olafur Eliasson Climate Change Initiative – Sotheby’s First Women- Only Artists Sale
22 April 2021
The sale of Young Man Holding A Roundel 1470-80) by Sandro Botticelli, which went under the hammer today at Sotheby’s has made in excess of $80m ($92.1m plus fees).
28 January 2021
How Corporate! Hockney Hires Managing Director – Sotheby’s Out Performs Christie’s in 2020 – Mega* Barbara Streisand Buys A $4.5m Van Gogh
21 December 2020
John Lennon’s Death 40 Years On – What Sold At Art Basel Miami Beach – Jeffrey Epstein’s $139m Christie’s and Sotheby’s Sales
8 December 2020
Kara Walker Boots Trump Out – Eileen Agar Whitechapel Show – Sotheby’s Latest Lawsuit
9 November 2020
Banksy’s Show Me The Monet Sells For £7.6m At Sotheby’s
22 October 2020
A portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel by Sandro Botticelli painted in the 15th century will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in January. Young Man Holding a Roundel is expected to fetch more than 80 million dollars the highest estimate ever placed on a work by an Old Master in Sotheby’s history, the auction house says.
24 September 2020
I also visited the auction house to view all the lots, which made up quite an impressive exhibition: from ‘Rembrandt to Richter’ as it was called.
30 July 2020
Sotheby’s announced this week that a small, delicate Rembrandt self-portrait is to be auctioned on July 28th, here in London. The painting is unusually intimate, (about 17 x 22cm) and was painted in 1632 when the artist was 26 years old.
11 June 2020
Sotheby’s has announced significant redundancies, staff hiatuses, and pay cuts as a result of the Coronavirus.
2 April 2020
Francis Bacon’s late large-format Triptych Inspired by the Greek tragedy Oresteia of Aeschylus, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s. This will be the highlight their Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on 13 May 2020, when it will be offered with an estimate in excess of $60 million.
7 March 2020