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Sotheby’s Quietly Tried to Sell Arne Glimcher’s Pollock for $50 M.—It Didn’t Go as Planned
For much of Tuesday, June 2,, the second floor of Sotheby’s headquarters at Manhattan’s Breuer Building was off limits. Security guards turned away employees hoping to access the floor, which, when not used as a traditional gallery, is where the auction house stages its biggest and most closely watched auctions—including the $236 million Gustav Klimt read more
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Artists Sell More Than $1 M. in Art at Sotheby’s in Support of a Debt-Free Yale MFA Program
Artists ranging from Mickalene Thomas to Tammy Nguyen are banding together to sell more than $1 million in art at Sotheby’s next month, with all the funds going toward Yale University’s MFA art program, among the most esteemed ones of its kind in the country. All of the works will appear in a contemporary art read more
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Sotheby’s Tries Again to Sell $40 M. Picasso Painting That Didn’t Make It to Auction in 2008
A $40 million Pablo Picasso painting from the artist’s Cubist period will hit the block at Sotheby’s this May during the marquee New York auctions. Part of a cache of works from the collection of late Surrealist artist Enrico Donati and his wife Adele, who died last year, Arlequin (Buste), from 1909, is likely to read more
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$45 M. Basquiat Painting, ‘A Storied Masterpiece,’ Heads to Auction at Sotheby’s
A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will head to auction at Sotheby’s this May with an estimate “in excess of $45 million,” the house announced on Monday, poising it to become one of the most expensive works by the artist ever to hit the block. The painting, titled Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) and dated to 1983, read more
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Four Major Works by Bacon, Freud, and Kossoff from Lewis Collection to Hit Auction Block at Sotheby’s London in March
Sotheby’s will offer four major works from the Lewis Collection next month, spearheaded by a 1972 self-portrait by Francis Bacon, in what the auction house described as a markedly stronger market than a year ago. The group, which includes two portraits by Lucian Freud and a rare swimming pool scene by Leon Kossoff, will be read more
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Sotheby’s Will Sell Works by El Anatsui, Sean Scully, and Others to Benefit Royal Academy of Art
Next month, during the spring sales in London, Sotheby’s will auction off ten works to raise money for the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which has been in a financial crisis since the pandemic. The works have all been donated by living or honorary Royal Academicians, in the hopes of raising enough funds to read more
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Thomas Kaplan’s Rembrandt Lion Drawing Sells for $17.8 M. at Sotheby’s
After a world tour that saw Rembrandt van Rijn’s Young Lion Resting (ca. 1638–42) travel to Paris, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo, and New York, the drawing finally sold for a record $17.9 million on Wednesday (all quoted prices include fees). That’s the highest price ever paid for a drawing by the Dutch master. While the result read more
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Sotheby’s Second Sale in Saudi Arabia Tops $19.6 M., Sets Record for Saudi Artist
Just under a year ago, Sotheby’s made its biggest foray in the Gulf yet with its first-ever auction in Saudi Arabia. That sale, titled “Origins” and featuring 117 lots spanning art and luxury objects, brought in $17.3 million with fees—squarely within its $14 million–$20 million presale estimate. It wasn’t a spectacular result, but also wasn’t read more
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