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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Melanie Clore to leave Sotheby’s
23 February 2016Melanie Clore, Sotheby’s European chairman and co-chairman of Impressionist & Modern art, is leaving at the end of February after 35 years at the auction house.
Shining a light on rare sketches
23 February 2016Sotheby’s London will be showing hundreds of previously unseen jewellery drawings in a one-off exhibition from February 18-March 8, sourced from a privately owned collection of jewellery and silver.
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Lukewarm totals at London Contemporary art series
15 February 2016The Contemporary art market survived better than many had expected at the London auction series last week.
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Mixed results for London Imps and Mods series
08 February 2016In a week of varying results, the Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist Art sales at Christie's and Sotheby's London took £228.8m with premium in total (compared with £381.4m for the equivalent series last year).
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Export stop on Howard cabinets
04 February 2016Culture minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a pair of 17th century Italian ebony, ormolu and hardstone inlaid cabinets in the hope that they can be saved for the nation.
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Sales fall at big two as market shapes to cool
02 February 2016Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s saw sales fall in 2015, a sign that the art market may be slowing.
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Maiolica charger takes £210,000 at Sotheby’s
28 January 2016Sotheby’s recent sale of royal and aristocratic heirlooms, titled Of Royal and Noble Descent, included this maiolica istoriato charger.
Sotheby’s follow suit with New York May series
25 January 2016Sotheby’s are following Christie’s by staging their flagship New York May auctions of Impressionist & Modern art and Contemporary art in a single week.
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Sotheby’s to offer £20m Pilkington collection in Hong Kong
21 January 2016The centrepiece of Sotheby’s April auction series in Hong Kong will be the collection of around 100 lots of Chinese porcelain spanning the Tang to Qing dynasties that was formed by the British collector Roger Pilkington.
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Sotheby’s acquire art advisors AAP
18 January 2016The competition between auction houses to expand their private sales operations took a new twist with the announcement last week that Sotheby’s had bought art advisory firm Art Agency, Partners (AAP).
New head for Sotheby’s Europe
31 December 2015Sotheby’s have announced that Mario Tavella, deputy chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and European head of single-owner collections, will become président directeur général of Sotheby’s France.
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James I watch makes £850,000 at Sotheby’s
31 December 2015The market for traditional antiques ended 2015 on a high with a series of spectacular individual prices posted in London and New York in mid-December.
80 redundancies at Sotheby’s
22 December 2015Sotheby’s are to make some 80 positions redundant as part of the company’s efforts to reduce costs.
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Wright of Derby grotto scene makes £550,000 to aid refugee crisis
14 December 2015Among the works drawing interest at the latest round of Old Master and British Paintings sales in London was Joseph Wright of Derby’s (1734-97) ‘A grotto in the gulf of Salerno...’.
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John Winter sale at Sotheby’s recalls former director’s passion for Italy
04 December 2015Sotheby’s will rekindle their connections with former director John Winter this month thanks to a 186-lot single-owner sale in New Bond Street.
Sotheby’s begin staff cuts with voluntary scheme
20 November 2015Sotheby’s have begun a voluntary redundancy scheme as they look to cut costs as part of their restructuring plan.
Christie’s change antiquities schedule
18 November 2015Christie’s have announced major changes to their antiquities sales calendar in London and New York.
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Results for Taubman collection question level of guarantee
09 November 2015The hefty guarantee paid out by Sotheby’s to secure the Alfred Taubman collection meant the stakes were running high for the first and most financially crucial tranche of the four-part auction staged at Sotheby’s New York.
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No cut-price deal as £35m Rembrandt stays in UK
02 November 2015A Rembrandt portrait sold in a £35m private sale negotiated by Sotheby’s will be staying in the UK after the overseas buyer withdrew their application to export the painting.
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New highs for Lucie Rie and Peder Moos as Phillips’ design sale gives boost to London hub
15 October 2015London’s growing importance as a hub for Modern design – boosted with the imminent return of sales at Sotheby’s – was underlined this month with records at Phillips in Mayfair.
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