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Sotheby’s prepares to reopen galleries in New York and London
Chief executive Charles Stewart lays plans for the auction house’s flagship sales to be held in New York next month
Sotheby's launches Gallery Network online sales platform
Featuring galleries like Petzel, Lehmann Maupin and Jack Shainman, the buy-now marketplace transacts sales through the auction house at publicly listed prices
On the block at Sotheby’s: David Bowie’s wallpaper featuring Lucian Freud nude—and emasculated minotaurs
Redundancies, pay cuts and staff furloughs at Sotheby's as coronavirus impact bites
Christie's is also making salary cuts and has furloughed between 300-400 staff as lockdown closes auction houses and forces sales online
Sotheby's postpones New York May 'gigaweek' sales due to coronavirus
Move is in line with Christie's and Phillips which postponed their sales to late June, but Sotheby's is yet to announce when its auctions will actually happen
Peregrine Pollen, who revitalised auction industry and laid the ground for the booming art market of the 21st century, has died, age 89
One of the most dynamic figures in the international expansion of Sotheby's in the 1960s and 1970s, descended from generations of collectors and men of action
What is Sotheby’s doing to win private sales?
As the Donald B. Marron collection goes to three dealers, the auction house is rethinking how it pitches for works
Sotheby’s to offer $60m Francis Bacon triptych in May New York sales
The work comes from the collection of the Norweigan shipping heir Hans Rasmus Astrup and is the second major coup for the auction house’s spring sales season
Object lessons: from a spring-time Alma Thomas to an enamel lamp representing an 'ecstatic orgasm'
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions and fairs
Sotheby’s relocates April Hong Kong auctions to New York due to coronavirus
The firm is also rolling its London June sales into one week for the first time in more than a decade
US banker buys Brexit Banksy at Sotheby's, making a bigger splash than David Hockney’s pool painting
Auction house fields a steady contemporary evening sale in London
Object lessons: from a medicinal Damien Hirst to a splashy David Hockney
Our pick of highlights from the next fortnight's fairs and auctions
Sotheby's new owner Patrick Drahi comes to auction house's first sale in post-Brexit Britain
“No fireworks” at last night's Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction that featured three restituted works
Object lessons: from a Depression-era social works photo to a Jean Metzinger painting inspired by a bet
Our pick of highlights from this week's fairs and auctions around the world
Charles White: a buyer's guide
He chronicled the African American experience when white male abstraction ruled. Now record prices for his work are frequently reset
Sale prices soar past estimates at auction of decorator Mario Buatta's estate at Sotheby's
Christie's also holds its own at an auction of American furniture and folk art
How serious are the dangers of market sponsorship of museum exhibitions?
Involvement from galleries and auction houses is on the rise as public institutions face dwindling government funds and increased scrutiny over toxic philanthropy
Sotheby’s to auction three Nazi-looted works restituted to Jewish collector’s heirs
Two paintings by Signac and one by Pissarro are expected to fetch as much as £20m
Want to buy a Van Gogh? Sotheby’s has four works with (relatively) modest estimates
Unseen for 25 years, they all come from a very private American collector
2020 vision: the big year of change for auction houses?
Supported by transformational new technology, the sector is ditching its traditional business model in favour of the luxury goods market
UK buyer sought for £8m Gainsborough masterpiece barred from export
Pastoral landscape sold at Sotheby’s was once owned by Royal Holloway college
The top ten auction results of 2019—and the art market trends they reveal
We look back at the biggest art sales of the year, which reveal a concentration on New York over London and a continued dominance of 20th century male artists
Kenny Schachter on his Christmas clear out
Sotheby’s sale is set to raise half a million pounds, offsetting money lost in Inigo Philbrick deals
Amy Cappellazzo becomes head of expanded Fine Arts division as Sotheby's restructures
While her role grows to cover departments such as Old Masters, second global division will include luxury objects and decorative art, jewellery and wine
Sotheby's wins case over 'modern forgery' Frans Hals
A London-based investment company must repay more than $5.3m to the auction house, which refunded an American client for work
From cancelled fairs to street art's auction room takeover: the art market's fruitiest stories of 2019
We look back at the stories that have overturned the art world order this year
'Christmas dinner without the turkey': little festive cheer at Sotheby's Old Masters sale
December auction generates less than half the total of last year's sale, with several lots failing to sell
Object Lessons: the best of London Art Week
From a miracle scene seized by Nazis to a pensive painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, our pick of highlights from this week's auctions and fairs
Portrait commissioned by Charles Dickens, unseen for a century, goes on sale at Sotheby's London
The artist William Powell Frith 'almost collapsed' at the honour of being commissioned by the famous writer to paint his heroine Kate Nickleby