Sotheby's

Sotheby’s latest evening sale of Contemporary art in London raised a total of £50.3m including premium with a landscape by David Hockney (b.1937) among the lots drawing bidders.

Once believed by other inhabitants of the region to be people who hid in the forests so as to avoid being put to work or taken as slaves, orang-utans undertook a couple of significant auction outings as part of Sotheby's sale of the travel library of John and Suzanne Bonham.

Sotheby’s posted a record price for any piece of Chinese ceramics sold at auction after a rare Ru guanyao brush washer drew a 20 minute bidding battle in Hong Kong.

The personal collections of film stars Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn were both ‘white glove’ events in London last week.

Dealer Philip Mould was among the bidders at Sotheby’s sale of the Yeats collection this week.

Auction house Sotheby’s has awarded two US museums a prize of $125,000 each as part of its new exhibition competition.

The desk used by poet WB Yeats has sold for £150,000 (£187,000 inc premium) this morning, five times its top estimate of £30,000.

Leading players in Irish arts and culture have protested at the sale of the Yeats Collection by Sotheby’s tomorrow (September 27), urging the Irish government to intervene and save it for the nation.

George Daniels’ (1926-2011) ‘Space Travellers’ watch topped its previous auction record when it sold at Sotheby’s this week for an astronomical £3.2m.

Sotheby’s is offering a fine painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) at its Old Master evening sale in December. It comes to auction with an unbroken provenance going back well over a century and is estimated at £2.5m-3.5m.

Demand for Lucie Rie’s studio pottery is on a roll. The latest example in the saleroom came at Sotheby’s Made in Britain auction on September 13 when this yellow and bronze glazed bowl from the 1980s sold for £100,000 (plus premium).

British star of Gone with the Wind Vivien Leigh and Breakfast at Tiffany’s screen legend Aubrey Hepburn are the basis for auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s respectively next week.

‘Property from a Hampstead Collection’ is how auctioneers Sotheby’s are billing a large consignment of works from a ‘beautiful house’ in the leafy north London suburb.