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Sotheby’s, the auction house, is banking on a $70 million (£36 million) sale of Francis Bacon’s 1976 painting Triptych next week to offset what it calls uncertain economic times. The auctioneer hopes that it will attract as much as $477 million from its sales of contemporary art in New York next week, when Mark Rothko’s … Read more
LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) – Ten works of art from one of the world’s major private collections amassed by the late philanthropist Gustav Rau are to go on sale at Sotheby’s in July, the auctioneer said on Friday. The German industrialist, who sold the family auto parts business, trained as a doctor and spent 20 … Read more
One of the most important masterpieces by the great British painter J. M. W. Turner could be lost to public view when it appears on the market for the first time in 181 years. Pope’s Villa at Twickenham goes on sale at Sotheby’s in London on July 9 with a starting price of £5 million, … Read more
NEW YORK – Sotheby’s announced it will offer Chant 2, the most important painting by Bridget Riley (b.1931) ever to come to the market, in its Evening Auction of Contemporary Art on Tuesday, 1st July 2008. Estimated at £2-3 million, Chant 2 is arguably the single most pivotal and groundbreaking work in the entire output … Read more
An enormous porcelain centerpiece that was among the top presale lots in Sotheby’s Russian art sales last week is now at the center of a legal dispute, in which a Great Neck man claims that the dealer who put the piece up for auction stole it from his home and then told him he would … Read more