Paintings

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) — Sotheby’s Christmas party tonight, where guests will sip champagne at the company’s Bond Street offices, starts a week of London old-master painting sales valued at as much as 75.5 million pounds ($155 million).Read full story

A 17th-century Italian baroque cabinet was sold at auction house Sotheby’s for slightly more than one million pounds (1.4 million euros, 2.1 million dollars) on Tuesday after its missing stand was found in a pizzeria.Read full story

A 156-page working script for Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” and the screenwriting Oscar he won for the movie are expected to fetch more than $1 million when they are auctioned next week, said Sotheby’s.Read full story

Incredible historic documents of interest to private collectors and institutional curators come to auction in New York City on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 – including a German ‘Top Secret’ rocketry document, a scarce copy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, rare signed papers of US Presidents and the document announcing the establishment of the State … Read more

THE Melbourne auction group of businessman Rod Menzies has whipped international heavyweight Sotheby’s in the battle for No1 position.Read full story