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Revealed: how Van Gogh's nephew exchanged two of the artist's drawings for butter and bacon
The pair of works are now worth £1m, with one coming up for sale at Sotheby’s on 25 June
Sotheby’s offers peek at Breuer building’s makeover
New renderings show the subtle interventions the auction house is making to its new Manhattan locale ahead of the marquee autumn auctions in November
Sotheby's aims for supersonic sale with Elizabeth Peyton portrait of Gallagher brothers
The painting goes to the block ahead of Oasis's much anticipated reunion tour later this summer—perfect timing, some might say
Pauline Karpidas collection estimated to make £60m at Sotheby's
The London sales of mostly Surrealist art have the highest estimate ever placed on a single collection by the auction house in Europe
Newly attributed Turner painting, last sold for £500, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's with £300,000 estimate
The work was previously attributed to a follower of the 18th-century artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson, but experts agree it was infact painted by a teenaged Turner
‘The new Napoleon’: collector urges Elon Musk to buy his Bonaparte trove
Could the 100-item lot be enough to distract the controversial billionaire from his current spat with President Donald Trump?
Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi painting offered for sale in London for £1m to £2m
David with the Head of Goliath, fully attributed to the artist in 2020, will headline Sotheby's Old Master evening auction on 2 July
Interiors of former Whitney Museum building landmarked ahead of Sotheby's move-in
Marcel Breuer's Brutalist gem on the Upper East Side is to undergo a partial renovation as part of its auction house revamp
Sotheby’s $51.8m Saunders collection falls short, but still breaks Old Masters record
The sale achieved a 62% sell through rate and made new auction records for Luis Meléndez and Frans Post
Aboriginal art returns to Sotheby’s New York two years after pioneering dealer Tim Klingender's death
The auction house holds its first dedicated sale of Indigenous Australian art since the passing of Klingender, who was instrumental in developing the market for this category
‘Halo effect’ of powerful art dealers’ collections boosts Sotheby’s sale
Works from the estate of Barbara Gladstone and the home of Daniella Luxembourg—plus a litter of Lichtensteins—energised 15 May marquee auction of post-war and contemporary art
Magna Carta ‘copy’ once sold at Sotheby's is an original, say UK professors
The document was consigned to the auction house in 1946 then, later the same year, purchased by Harvard Law School for just $27.50
$70m Giacometti bombs at patchy Sotheby’s Modern art auction
The prize lot, a bust depicting the artist’s brother Diego, failed to attract bidders during the $186.4m sale
Why is the art market turning Gulf-wards?
As China’s market drops, auction houses and dealers have been following the money to Saudi Arabia
UK government bans export of £10m Botticelli painting
The work was previously held in a private collection for 120 years
Dealer Daniella Luxembourg to sell $30m of art from personal collection at auction
The sale at Sotheby's New York next month includes works by Lucio Fontana, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg
Snap! Miles Aldridge takes polaroid pics at Sotheby’s
Maurizio Cattelan was among those papped—all for charity
Slim Hong Kong evening sales at Christie's and Sotheby's draw solid results for a 'tough season'
Both auctions represent significant decreases from previous sales seasons, but strong sell-through rates and increased bidding from mainland China indicate signs of recovery
Sotheby's to sell art belonging to Brazil's Lady of the Resistance
The journalist and collector Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt, who established the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, was exiled after speaking out against Brazil's military dictatorship
The big art world slowdown, Dutch culture funding crisis, Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow—podcast
What’s behind the new, more measurement approaches to programming at museums, art fairs and more? Plus, a chat about current tensions around culture in the Netherlands and a close look at one of the most famous depictions of a wintery landscape
The Saunders collection will be a real test of the Old Master market
Due to be sold at Sotheby's New York in May, the group of works includes pieces by Guardi and Canaletto and is billed as the "most valuable single-owner collection of Old Master paintings ever to appear at auction"
London contemporary art auctions kick off with £5.4m record for Lisa Brice, despite geopolitical chaos
Last night's sale at Sotheby's, which totalled £62.5m, also included a £4.3m Banksy sold by blink-182 frontman Mark Hoppus
Sotheby's secures most valuable single owner collection of Old Master paintings to come to auction
Around 60 works estimated for a total of $80m to $120m from the collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders will be offered in New York this May
Records set for Arab artists at Sotheby’s debut Saudi Arabia auction
The “Origins” sale totalled $17.28m and achieved a sell-through rate of 67% by lot
New York Old Masters sales fall just short of expectations at Christie’s and Sotheby’s amid ‘tough’ market
At this year’s winter auctions, the two big houses saw ‘a mixed bag and mixed results’
Designer handbags and Damien Hirst: Sotheby’s 'casts wide net' for inaugural Saudi Arabia auction
Blue-chip fine art, jewellery and sports memorabilia all on offer in the Diriyah sale—the first to be held by an international auction house in the country
Sotheby’s made $6bn in 2024—but sales dropped for second consecutive year
Overall sales fell by 23% compared to 2023, though the private division grew
Comment | Sotheby’s fees fiasco displays terrible timing and a miscalculation of market dynamics
The auction house's swift reversal of its recently overhauled premium structure is an admission of how wrongly it read the runes, writes Melanie Gerlis
New York takes first step towards landmarking Breuer building's interior
Sotheby’s, which bought the former home of the Whitney Museum last year, promises to respect the building’s “architectural significance” in its upcoming renovations
UK export bar placed on rare 17th-century Fairhaven Panels worth £1.6m
Museums must match the price of the pearl and shell piece which sold at Sotheby’s last year