Sotheby’s Appoints Charles F. Stewart New CEO
Sotheby’s has announced the appointment of Charles F. Stewart as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Stewart succeeds Tad Smith, who served as CEO of Sotheby’s since 2015.
28 October 2019
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Stolen Joshua Reynolds Painting In Japanese Museum Was Sold By Sotheby’s
A painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, stolen from a UK stately home in 1984, has been discovered in the collection of a Japanese museum.
6 September 2019
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne Collection To Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s Paris is to offer the personal collection of Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne this autumn.
23 July 2019
Bacon, Freud and Saville Top Sotheby’s Evening Contemporary Sale
Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art has realised £69,143,300/ $87,811,991/ €77,440,496 (est. £58-82.8 million/ $73.5-105 million / €64.7-92.4 million).
27 June 2019
Sotheby’s Sold To Private French/Israeli Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi
Sotheby’s has been sold to the French/Israeli Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi for $3.7 Billion, taking the second largest Auction House in the world from public ownership to private.
18 June 2019
Monet Haystacks Breaks the $100m Mark At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s New York has broken yet another record for the Impressionist artist Claude Monet. The painting titled Meules (Haystacks) from 1890 sold for $110.7 million.
15 May 2019
Francis Bacon Screaming Pope Portrait to Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Francis Bacon’s $20-30m ‘Screaming Pope’ Study for a Head is to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s, in May. It is one of the most iconic works by the artist remaining in private hands
1 April 2019
Billion Dollar Week For Christie’s And Sotheby’s As Iconic Works Smash Records
It’s been a week of record-breaking sales for the two leading auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s recording billion dollar sales totals and record-breaking prices for artists living and deceased.
20 November 2018
Banksy Sotheby’s Shredder Stunt Was All Smoke And Mirrors
Was the art stunt of the century carried out by the Street Artist Banksy on the 5th of October an elaborate magic trick? or was it an expression of true anarchy? Much of the world now knows that a stencil spray-painting self-destructed when the frame turned into a paper shredder
17 October 2018
You’ve Been Framed – Banksy Shreds £1m Painting At Sotheby’s – Buyer Completes
A stunt performed by the Street Artist Banksy at Sotheby’s during London’s Autumn Contemporary Art Evening Sale has gone viral.
6 October 2018
Frank Dunphy: Damien Hirst Manager’s Art Collection Sells For Millions At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s, London, have sold the collection of Damien Hirst’s business manager, mentor and ‘partner in crime’, Frank Dunphy for a total of £10,088,125 million
23 September 2018
Sotheby’s Announces Second Quarter 2018 Results And It’s Not Great
Sotheby’s has reported its financial results for the second quarter and six months ending June 30, 2018.
10 August 2018
Christie’s Record £3bn Half-Year Figures Eclipses Sotheby’s
A 26% rise has been reported at Christie’s with overall sales to almost £3bn ($4bn, up 35%) compared to £2.35bn in the first half of 2017.
25 July 2018
New Record For Lucian Freud Painting At Sotheby’s London
A painting by the British Artist Lucian Freud from his ‘last great nudes’ series, Portrait on a White Cover has sold at Sotheby’s London for £a record 22.5million / $29.8 million.
27 June 2018
Modigliani Nu Couché Tops Sotheby’s Highest Ever Record Price At $157m
Amedeo Modigliani Nu Couché has become the most valuable work ever sold at Sotheby’s—selling for $157 million in the 14 May Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale.
15 May 2018
Howard Hodgkin Estate Sale Soars At Sotheby’s
A testament to the exceptional eye of British painter Howard Hodgkin has been finalised when the kaleidoscope of exquisite objects that the artist so carefully drew together in his home, exceeded pre-sale expectations and sold for a combined total of £5,184,887 / $6,843,532 / €5,806,049
25 October 2017
Grenfell Tower Art Auction Raises £1.9m At Sotheby’s
London: An auction held at Sotheby’s in aid of survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire has raised £1.9m. Thirty one lots donated by artists including Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tilmans Antony Gormley and Tracey Emin sold over the estimates set by the auctioneers.
17 October 2017
Howard Hodgkin Personal Collection To Go Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s
Howard Hodgkin had an eye for the exceptional when it came to collecting. His personal taste resonates through his paintings, his ability to identify the extraordinary in unexpected places was deployed in his incessant hunt for art and objects of exquisite beauty.
11 September 2017
Edward Albee Collection Unveiled By Sotheby’s Ahead Of September Auction
Sotheby’s has unveiled the full contents of The Collection of Edward Albee, which will be offered in a dedicated auction in New York on 26 September 2017.
25 August 2017
Sotheby’s Strong Second Quarter 2017 Results Boosts Share Price
Sotheby’s have reported their financial results for the second quarter and six months ending June 30, 2017. Last week shares soared ahead of the announcement.
7 August 2017
George Frederic Watts Masterpiece Orpheus and Eurydice Auctioned At Sotheby’s
An important Important Work by the Artist George Frederic Watts is to be offered at Sotheby’s. This marks the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Watt’s Birth.
6 July 2017
Wassily Kandinsky Painting Achieves £33m A New Auction Record At Sotheby’s
A new auction record for Wassily Kandinsky was broken twice last night at Sotheby’s London. Murnau – Landschaft mit grünem Haus from 1909, sold for £21 million / $26.4 million / €23.9 million. Both early works by Kandinsky were among the few left in private hands, this painting made its auction debut having remained in the private collection of the same family since the 1920s.
22 June 2017
Mario Testino Puts His Personal Art Collection Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s
Mario Testino, is to put his art collection under the hammer at Sotheby’s. As one of the most celebrated photographers of our time, this project will look beyond Testino’s enigmatic images that have shaped contemporary culture and reveal the artist as collector, patron and collaborator.
27 May 2017
Chris Levine Queen Portrait Triples Estimate Selling For £187K At Sotheby’s
The auction was led by a record for pioneer of ‘light art’ Chris Levine as his strikingly modern portrait of Queen Elizabeth II tripled its pre-sale estimate to sell for £187,500 (£50,000-80,000).
6 April 2017
Gerald Scarfe Political Cartoons To Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Gerald Scarfe (b. 1936) will be selling a chunk of his political cartoons at Sotheby’s in April. Over 130 drawings by this important caricaturist and cartoonist will go under the hammer.
6 March 2017
Erotic Art And Objects Go Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s is presenting their first sale of Erotica, 16 February. Timed just a few days after Valentine’s day the sale offers a range of art and decorative objects, all with erotic overtones. Across the centuries, art has always been intrinsically linked to expressions of passion and sensuality. The Erotic: Passion & Desire sale in London encompasses representations of love and sex from antiquity to the present day.
14 February 2017
Gerhard Richter Eisberg Goes Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s
An important painting by the German artist Gerhard Richter goes under the hammer for the first time in March 2017 at Sotheby’s London Evening sale of Contemporary Art.
26 January 2017
Edvard Munch Masterpiece Girls on the Bridge Achieves £44.6m At Sotheby’s
Last night’s results for the Evening Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York coupled with those in London this June, demonstrate there is strong demand for top-quality works at every price level,” said Simon Shaw, Co-Head of Sotheby’s Worldwide Impressionist & Modern Art Department.
15 November 2016
David Bowie Art Collection Part One Achieves £24.3m At Sotheby’s
The first part of the David Bowie art collection that went under the hammer at Sotheby’s yesterday (10 November) has achieved £24.3m ($30.5 m) with a painting by Jean-Michele Basquiat reaching £7 million.
14 November 2016
Lord and Lady Attenborough’s Modern British Art Collection At Sotheby’s
Lord and Lady Attenborough’s Modern British art collection goes under the hammer November 2016, at Sotheby’s London. On 22 – 23 November, Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British art sales will offer 37 works from their celebrated private collection, assembled with immense passion and a very distinctive eye.
7 November 2016
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