Sotheby’s New York delivers white glove auction of Sydell Miller collection but patchy Modern evening sale
The Art Newspaper
January 3, 2025 by Judd Tully

Kicking off November’s marquee evening sales, the house brought in a total of $268.6m from 49 lots Sotheby’s kicked off Read more…

Magritte gets star billing at Christie’s $410m ‘solid as a rock’ evening auction
The Art Newspaper
November 20, 2024 by Judd Tully

The interior designer Mica Ertegun’s Surrealist L’empire des lumières sold for a record $121.1m in New York last night, with Read more…

Generous guarantees and a giant Warhol net a healthy $346.5m for Christie’s Modern evening sale in New York
The Art Newspaper
May 17, 2024 by Judd Tully

The reassuring result was a marked increase from last year’s equivalent auction—despite a cyberattack that has taken down the auction Read more…

Sotheby’s White Glove Macklowe Sale
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May 17, 2022 by Judd Tully

Sotheby’s staged the second tranche of the esteemed Macklowe Collection on Monday evening and snared the highest priced single owner Read more…

Warhol’s Blue Marilyn sells for record-smashing $195m at Christie’s auction of Swiss dealers’ collection
The Art Newspaper
May 10, 2022 by Judd Tully

The collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann brought in $317.8m with fees, good for Christie’s forth-biggest single-owner sale ever. Powered Read more…

Sotheby’s White Glove Macklowe Bonanza
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November 16, 2021 by Judd Tully

Sotheby’s pulled off the first stage of The Macklowe Collection with a white glove, 100 percent sold $676,055,000 evening sale, Read more…

Sotheby’s Back-to-Back Evening Sales of Contemporary & Impressionist & Modern Art
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October 30, 2020 by Judd Tully

The so-called hybrid digital live stream model of art auctions invented out of necessity from the Covid pandemic, soldiers on Read more…

Sotheby’s Solid, Cross-Category Live-Stream Sale
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July 28, 2020 by Judd Tully

The live-stream, online auction world kept apace in these pandemic times on Monday as Sotheby’s cross-category, “Rembrandt to Richter” auction Read more…

Low-Key Impressionist-Modern Auction in New York
Artnews
November 13, 2019 by Judd Tully

Fighting off the growing perception of a declining market, Sotheby’s managed to pull off a fairly decent, though not stellar, Read more…

Altered Estates
Artnews
October 1, 2019 by Judd Tully

As the market for departed artists heats up, galleries get in line. One of the most eye catching displays under Read more…