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Strange bedfellows: advisor Allan Schwartzman and art investment specialist Philip Hoffman team up
The London-headquartered The Fine Art Group and New York-based Schwartzman& are collaborating—but this is not a merger, they stress
'I’ve done my duty on spreadsheets': senior staff reshuffles at Christie's and Sotheby's
A number of new appointments are announced today at the auction houses, with a different EMEA president for Christie's and new managing director in the Middle East at Sotheby's
Sotheby’s and Ketterer Kunst among auction houses to ban some Russian buyers
The move comes as the art market steps up its due diligence
The original NFT? Sotheby's to offer a receipt for an invisible work by Yves Klein for €500,000
The French conceptual artist made nine "empty zones" in the last three years of his life, which could be purchased only with pure gold
Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams call off Russian art auctions in response to war in Ukraine
The sales, popular with London-based Russians and regional collectors in Russia alike, had been scheduled for June
Major Surrealist paintings make auction debut at Sotheby's Paris, including Picabia's very modern muse
The 25-lot sale tomorrow includes works that reflect "how irrational, how ugly, and how challenging the modern world can be"
Magritte more than doubles auction record at an otherwise tame Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening sale in London
Back-to-back auctions, with works from Degas to Banksy, brought in a total of £221m
Van Gogh’s depiction of two lovers—sliced out of a landscape painting—comes up for sale
Sotheby’s will auction the surviving picture of the strolling couple on 2 March, estimated at £7m-£10m
Pensioners revolt: Patrick Drahi winds up Sotheby’s ‘defined benefit’ pension plan, and former employees are not happy
Ex-staff are now considering legal action, claiming they were not kept informed of changes to the scheme
Botticelli: my worries about the Man of Sorrows
The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution
Botticelli's 'stunning and puzzling' Man of Sorrows
The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution
Bacon and beasts: an in-depth look at the visceral new show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco
Late Botticelli painting sputters at Sotheby’s Old Masters auction in New York, selling for $45.4m
The star lot of the sale, a rediscovered and austere portrait of Christ, hammered just below its estimate
Louvre teams up with Sotheby’s to investigate provenance of works bought during the Second World War
The auction house will help the Parisian institution research the history of items purchased between 1933 and 1945, which "may lead to restitutions"
Sotheby’s reportedly selects Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley to pursue IPO at around $5bn
The auction house, which had been publicly traded for decades before being bought by Patrick Drahi for $3.7bn in 2019, could return to public trading later this year
Sicilian castle from The Godfather movie is up for sale for €6m—but what about the extensive art collection it was built for?
Baron Pennisi commissioned the neo-Gothic villa, which includes a private chapel with frescoes by Giuseppe Sciuti, at the end of the 19th century
This £45m Magritte painting could double artist's previous record
The monumental L’empire des lumières, painted in 1961 for the artist's muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, has never been sold before but will now be auctioned at Sotheby's in London in March
'Cancelled' Madonna and Child found beneath Botticelli's $40m Man of Sorrows
Infrared images of the painting, which is due to be sold at Sotheby's in New York later this month, show that an earlier composition lies underneath
Sotheby’s faces class-action lawsuit alleging mistreatment and misclassification of workers
Lawyers for the auction house are trying to dismiss the complaint, which they call 'devoid of factual allegations,' but they could be facing a classic Catch-22.
Remembering Michel Strauss, Impressionist supremo at Sotheby’s over four decades
Expert from a French collecting dynasty saw first-hand the fast-changing art world of the 1960s and helped British Rail create its renowned collection
Object lessons: from a Renaissance drawing unseen for a century to a work by Mali’s pre-eminent photographer
Our pick of the highlights from coming fairs and auctions
Sotheby’s owner Patrick Drahi reportedly considering taking auction house public
Drahi bought Sotheby’s less than three years ago, took it private and began implementing a series of cost-cutting measures
Sotheby’s sales for 2021 surpass $7.3bn, the highest total in company history
The firm’s sales were bolstered by a sharp increase in online bidders, who accounted for 92% of all bids this year
Can Palm Beach last as an art market hub?
The south Florida town, awash with ultra-wealthy retirees, has seen a rise in art market power players since the start of the pandemic
Sotheby's to offer The Hamilton Aphrodite, an ancient Roman marble last sold 70 years ago now expected to fetch up to £3m
The larger than life-size statue was brought back from Rome by the Duke of Hamilton in the 18th century and is named after his Scottish palace
Sotheby's triple-header New York auction night notches up $234.2m with artist records for Lisa Brice, Maria Berrio and seven others
The auction house also accepted cryptocurrency on two works by Banksy and sold a rare copy of the US Constitution for $41m
Frida Kahlo breaks record for a Latin American artist in Sotheby's $238m Modern art sale
While the auction's star lots included the $34.9m Kahlo and four Monets, the most aggressive bidding was on works by Alexander Calder and Pierre Soulages
Macklowe collection auction brings $676.1m, the highest sale total in Sotheby’s history
Bidders from Asia snapped up the sale’s two biggest lots, trophy works by Giacometti and Rothko
Crypto wallets at the ready: Sotheby's to accept live bidding in ethereum on two Banksy works
The auction house made Banksy's world record for the pre-shredded work Love is in the Bin