During Art Basel Paris week, the energy surrounding the art market translated into an unprecedented result for Sotheby's Paris office. The auction house recorded its highest total ever in France for a combined sale of modern and surrealist art, with ...
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This fall, New York will become the stage for one of the most anticipated auctions in recent years. Indeed, Sotheby's will present the Leonard A. Lauder collection, a body of work that reflects decades of research, selection, and passion by one of Am...
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In December, Sotheby's will auction at its New York headquarters a singular item: the oldest stone tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments. Dating from the late Byzantine period, this artifact is about 1,500 years old and is the only complete table...
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$1 million for Cattelan's banana. Comedian, the celebrated banana taped to the wall, a 2019 work by Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, Italy, 1960) will indeed go to auction at Sotheby's, with an estimate of $1 to $1.5 million. It will be the highlight of the...
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One year after the record sale of Sandro Botticelli's $92.2 million Portrait of a Young Man with Medallion, the same artist's Vir Dolorum went to auction at Sotheby 's today as expected.
A few days ago the latter painting had provided a wonderful su...
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Three works by Banksy that are part of the collection of one of the UK's most famous pop singers, Robbie Williams, will go up for auction at Sotheby 's in London on March 2, 2022. The star is in fact also an avid collector, an aspect that has remaine...
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For the first time, a work by a Latin American artist has been sold at auction for a record sum: it is Diego y yo, a painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which was sold at Sotheby 's for the sum of nearly $35 million, $34,883,000 to be exact.
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