T ransforming a world-class museum into an auction house is more complicated than it sounds. For one thing, Sotheby’s will ...
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Sotheby’s is being sued by a furious art collector who claims the famed auction house is reneging on a deal to buy back his ...
"They were his works, he could do whatever he wanted with them," Sotheby's executive Samuel Valette said, denying the auction house's role in Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier's art fraud scheme. Italian ...
An unhappy collector has sued Sotheby's over what he claims is their failure to uphold a buyback agreement for a Modigliani.
The mounted skeleton of a stegosaurus dating back to the late Jurassic period sold at the Sotheby’s auction house for $44.6 million. The stegosaurus is known for its distinctive set of bony plates ...
At Sotheby’s first sale in its new headquarters, it became the priciest work of modern art ever sold at auction.
Over the past few weeks, Jennifer Lawrence has turned to Sotheby’s on three occasions to finish off her already formidable ...
The auction house’s debut at the Breuer was defined by Gustav Klimt’s late portrait soaring to $236.4 million, anchoring the ...
A collector in the room at Sotheby’s New York headquarters for the sale tells us they spotted producer Murphy placing the ...
"Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer," which played a role in protecting the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust, sold ...
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