Sotheby's
Sotheby’s have been holding auctions since 1744. Founded in London, where they moved into salerooms on Bond Street in 1917, Sotheby’s expanded to New York in 1955 and now have salerooms and offices around the world.
Sotheby’s offer specialist sales in over 70 different categories though four major salerooms, six smaller ones and through their online bidding platform BIDnow.
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Abu Dhabi fund buys into the Sotheby’s brand to ‘support the company’s growth’
19 August 2024Sotheby’s owner Patrick Drahi has sold a stake in the company to an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund.
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Manuscript copy of Leonardo da Vinci treatise tops third Brooker sale
19 August 2024Treatise about painting was a unique version among pre-publication copies thanks to the drawings
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Items of devotion amassed by devoted collector set market test
22 July 2024Dealer Speelman’s own figures and vessels shine among Asian art sales held in Paris
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Old Masters: ‘Slimmed down’ offering reflects reduced diet amid supply and demand challenges
22 July 2024‘Hesitant’ was how one dealer summed up bidding at the latest round of Old Master sales in London.
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Movers & Shakers: the latest art and antiques appointments including a shake-up in Sotheby's fine art team
15 July 2024Changes to Sotheby's Global Fine Art leadership team feature among the latest recruitment, promotions and business updates
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Original Harry Potter artwork takes a magical $1.6m result
08 July 2024The original artwork for 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone' sold at Sotheby’s for $1.6m (£1.3m) plus 20% buyer’s premium in New York on June 26.
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The real Withnail: diaries of Vivian MacKerrell, the actor who inspired Withnail and I, for sale at auction
27 June 2024Personal effects of the actor who inspired the classic cult film Withnail and I are expected to fetch up to £18,000 at Sotheby's.
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Harry Potter original artwork sells for $1.6m
27 June 2024Thomas Taylor created the artwork in 1997 aged 23 years old and fresh out of art school.
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Migrant artists on the move at Sotheby’s
17 June 2024The summer exhibition running at Sotheby’s this year focuses on works by artists who were born overseas but passed through or settled in the UK permanently.
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Jobs to be cut across the big London auction firms
10 June 2024Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams are all undertaking rounds of redundancies.
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Sotheby’s announces details of latest summer show
24 May 2024Sotheby’s is hosting an exhibition in London this summer featuring 12 works loaned from museums. All the works are by artists who were born overseas but passed through or settled in the UK permanently.
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Sotheby’s new pricing structure comes into effect
23 May 2024Auction house reduces buyers’ and sellers’ fees but rivals are yet to follow suit
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Leonora Carrington’s surrealist ‘masterpiece’ sets major auction record at Sotheby's
18 May 2024Setting a record for any British-born female artist at auction, a surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) drew a lengthy bidding battle at Sotheby’s New York on May 15, taking the artist into a new league commercially.
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Original cover artwork for Harry Potter estimated at record $600,000 comes to auction
02 May 2024The original cover watercolour for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by Thomas Taylor is coming to auction with the highest pre-sale estimate ever placed on an item of any Harry Potter-related work, according to Sotheby’s.
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New Zealand welcomes the Great White Fleet
29 April 2024An auction of traditional European decorative arts at Sotheby’s New York (20/10% buyer’s premium) on April 16 included this New Zealand Arts & Crafts presentation casket.
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Sotheby’s to offer Sutherland study for ‘loathed’ Churchill portrait
18 April 2024Sotheby’s will offer one of the most complete surviving studies of Sir Winston Churchill by Graham Sutherland (1903-80). It was painted in preparation for the famous final portrait – a work which the sitter violently loathed and was later destroyed.
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Egg-shaped artwork could set new auction record for Italian artist Lucio Fontana
09 April 2024An artwork by Lucio Fontana, the Argentine-Italian artist known for his 'slashed canvas' creations, is coming to auction in May.
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Watches: How military precision massively influenced design
11 March 2024The wristwatch, which began to replace the pocket watch in the First World War, really came into its own with the production of bespoke ‘tool’ watches for submariners and airmen later in the century
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Magritte leads Modern art auctions in London as overall totals fall
09 March 2024A surrealist painting by René Magritte (1898-1967) led the latest series of Modern and Contemporary art sales in London although overall the auctions at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips were rather flat compared to previous years.
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Auctions and dealer shows aplenty at Asia Week New York
04 March 2024Fifteeth year of the New York event involves 28 dealers and 12 salerooms taking part
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