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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Last of Henry’s six wives and spared death or divorce
01 May 2023Sotheby’s Coronation Sale ending on May 4 is a cross-category collection of manuscripts, jewellery, artwork and objects relating to the British monarchy
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Dr Wou Kiuan Collection takes a journey through history
01 May 2023Sotheby’s conducts a timed online sale from May 10-17 titled A Journey Through China’s History: The Dr Wou Kiuan Collection.
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Superstar Freddie Mercury's private collection to be sold at Sotheby’s this autumn
26 April 2023From stage costumes, handwritten lyrics and guitars to Victorian paintings, a Faberge clock and Japanese art, the private collection of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury (1946-91) is to be offered in a series of auctions.
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Sotheby’s offers Hammershøi interior scene with highest ever estimate for the artist
18 April 2023A major painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) will be offered at Sotheby’s evening sale of Modern art in New York on May 16. Pitched at $3m-5m, it has the highest estimate ever placed on a work by the Danish artist.
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US sales show market mood for English country house furniture
10 April 2023English furniture highlights from the Fred and Kay Krehbiel Collection sold by Hindman, the estate of Alan and Dianne Kay sold by Freeman’s and the Hyde Park Antiques sale at Sotheby’s, underlined strengths and weaknesses of English country house taste
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Hyde Park's 18th century punch bowls were Beggars belief
10 April 2023Objects associated with the infamous 18th century ‘Beggars Bennison’ society command a certain appeal.
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Géricault saddles up for a debut
13 March 2023Equestrian works by the French master come to auction market fresh from a family collection
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Restitutions prominent at latest Modern and Contemporary art series
06 March 2023The overall total raised at the latest round of Modern and Contemporary art sales in London was boosted by a couple of recently restituted pictures.
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Reach for the sky with a celestial single-owner collection
06 March 2023Headlining Sotheby’s Asia Week New York line up is the 23-lot single-owner auction Celestial Colors. The Cadle Family Collection of Chinese Monochromes.
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Specialists have to vie for vendors in a competitive Old Masters market
27 February 2023Hefty estimates and guarantees suggest a fierce competition in the market when seeking consignments
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Rubens painting to be offered in Modern art evening sale
23 February 2023Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ 'Portrait of a Man as the God Mars', once the most expensive work by the artist ever sold at auction, is to be offered at a Sotheby's Modern art sale.
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Marble marvel: 16th century portrait on stone acquired by the Met
20 February 2023A remarkable 16th century oil painting on marble that previously sold at Sotheby’s has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Getty Museum applies for export licence for Roman bust bought at London auction
14 February 2023The Getty Museum has agreed to acquire an ancient Roman marble bust which was sold at auction in London.
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Tiffany dragonfly lamp to delight
13 February 2023Sotheby’s New York holds an online auction titled Design that runs from March 7-14.
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Rubens heads New York’s Old Master series
30 January 2023A painting by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) from the collection of the divorcing couple Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson led the latest series of Old Master sales in New York.
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Lichtenstein and Warhol with a touch of Hockney
23 January 2023Key artists in the American pop art movement such as Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) and Andy Warhol (1929- 87) make big ticket prices.
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Nicolas Robert hits bloom time at £355,000
23 January 2023Right at the top of the price lists for a London sale of a second portion of the library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Earl Fairhaven, was a lot that presented a handsomely bound collection of 15 very fine watercolour on vellum drawings of flowers.
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Garrard pendant worn by Princess Diana bought by Kim Kardashian
21 January 2023Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has bought a c.1920 pendant by Garrard at Sotheby’s Royal & Noble auction on January 18 for a hammer price of £130,000.
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Edvard Munch painting hidden from Nazis in a Norwegian forest to be auctioned
17 January 2023An Edvard Munch (1863-1944) picture last on the market 89 years ago, which had been hidden from the Nazis during the war, is to be offered at Sotheby’s with a $15m-25m estimate.
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Old Masters: Still lifes take centre stage at sale of purchasing pioneer's collection
16 January 2023Juan Manuel Grasset became part of a new generation who bought directly at auction from the 1960s
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