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‘Halo effect’ of two powerful female art dealers’ collections boosts Sotheby’s New York sale
Sotheby’s closed out a week of high-stakes evening auctions in New York on Thursday night (15 May) with a successful…
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Magna Carta ‘copy’ once sold at Sotheby’s is an original, say UK professors
Two UK medieval history professors say that a manuscript once considered to be an unofficial copy of the Magna Carta—bought…
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$70m Giacometti bombs at patchy Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art auction
Sotheby’s Modern evening sale brought in $152m ($186.4m with fees) last night, far below the auction house’s pre-sale estimate of…
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Why is the art market turning Gulf-wards?
The sale of luxury goods in China slumped in 2024 by an eye-watering 18% to 20%, according to the consultancy…
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UK government bans export of £10m Botticelli painting
The UK government has placed an export bar on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Sandro Botticelli valued at £10.2m. The work,…
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Dealer Daniella Luxembourg to sell $30m of art from personal collection at auction – The Art Newspaper
The art dealer Daniella Luxembourg will sell 15 works worth more than $30m from her personal collection in Sotheby’s contemporary…
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From the archive | £16.2 million Vermeer led patchy sales – The Art Newspaper
Few artists have such popular appeal as Vermeer and Sotheby’s Bond Street saleroom was packed to over-flowing on the evening…
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Snap! Miles Aldridge takes polaroid pics at Sotheby’s – The Art Newspaper
The UK artist Miles Aldridge, known for his technicolour highly stylised mise-en-scènes, is taking polaroid pictures of members of the…
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Slim Hong Kong evening sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s draw solid results for a ‘tough season’ – The Art Newspaper
Christie’s and Sotheby’s went head-to-head in Hong Kong last week, creating an auction season around the city’s Art Basel fair…
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Sotheby’s to sell art belonging to Brazil’s Lady of the Resistance – The Art Newspaper
The journalist and art collector Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt (1916-2003) was a woman of courage and tenacity. Born in Salvador,…
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