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...Drahi bought London-based Sotheby’s in 2019 for $3.7bn via his family office, not Altice....
...April’s Hong Kong sales totals for Modern and contemporary art at Sotheby’s and Poly Auction were down considerably this year....
...The buccaneering Franco-Israeli telecoms billionaire Patrick Drahi took Sotheby’s equity private five-years ago....
...After a gradual start, Sotheby’s broke through $1bn in revenues from private sales in 2018....
...Wild tales circulate about the terms the new-look Sotheby’s has offered to lure top performers....
...“My job was to make money for Sotheby’s,” Valette told the jury. He was Sotheby’s top salesperson for private transactions worldwide for the past three years, the auction house said....
...“We completely trusted Bouvier and trusted Sotheby’s. We couldn’t even imagine Sotheby’s could participate in something like this,” Rybolovlev said as he testified through an interpreter....
...But his gripe is with Bouvier and not Sotheby’s,” Asner said during closing statements. “Caveat emptor,” he added....
...“Sotheby’s business is to bring together a seller and a buyer and make a sale happen,” said Sara Shudofsky, a lawyer for Sotheby’s, in her opening remarks on Monday, in front of a 10-member jury that included...
...This analyses sales of unique works at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, with data from ArtTactic....
...Sotheby’s did not comment on the circumstances of Martin’s departure in response to FT questions but said that the company “remains committed” to the department....
...Sotheby’s has already raised expectations — its March 6 auction will be Gilot’s first appearance in a major sale in London or New York, confirms Thomas Boyd-Bowman, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist and Modern...
...Commissions as a percentage of sales at Sotheby’s have accordingly been hit, judging from public accounts to 2020 and subsequent Luxembourg filings by BidFair, the parent company for all Sotheby’s businesses...
...Sotheby’s has announced it will be offering the $400mn-plus collection of about 120 works that belonged to the Manhattan patron of the arts Emily Fisher Landau, who died in March, aged 102....
...A lawsuit launched by Rybolovlev against Sotheby’s, the auction house, is not part of the settlement....
...“Abstraktes Bild” (1987) stands 2.6 metres high and 4 metres wide and was last sold at Sotheby’s in 2018 for $32mn....
...Disappointing sales included that of the Chinese billionaire couple Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong....
..., on the phone to a client from the continent, Sotheby’s confirmed....
...Sotheby’s will offer a rediscovered Rembrandt night scene for £10mn-£15mn as a highlight of its Old Masters sale in London this December....
...The competition can be severe, with each side (generally Sotheby’s and Christie’s) making more and more generous offers to the vendor....
...This sold from a Japanese collection to a single bid over the phone via Sotheby’s Asia chair....
...I bought them from Sotheby’s. De Lanux’s life story is interesting: she was designing furniture and rugs in Paris in the ’20s, and she died in New York at the age of 102....
...Rumours began to swirl this year that Sotheby’s would step in....
...A selection of the works that she kept for herself goes on sale at Sotheby’s Paris on June 21, with a further tranche consigned to New York early next year....
...Sotheby’s will add a bit of rock and roll to New York’s auction season in May with the collection of record producer Mo Ostin....
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