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At New York sales of Old Master drawings at Sotheby’s and of Chinese porcelain at Christie’s, buyers remained bullish despite uncertainties on Wall Street. The two categories of art appeal to different constituencies. Yet, both were equally successful. Read full story
Virgins, saints and sinners jostle one another today at Sotheby’s first old-master auctions of the year in New York. Led by famous names including Donatello, Titian and Cranach… Read full story
Sotheby’s, the world’s largest publicly traded auction house, fell to a 16-month low in New York on worries that a recession may drag down art prices. Sotheby’s now lags behind the Standard & Poor’s 500 index after enriching investors… Read full story
The four major international auction houses have all confirmed record sales for 2007. The Rothschild Faberge Egg The Rothschild Fabergé egg sold to the Russian National Museum for £8.9 million Christie’s, the dominant saleroom over the previous two years, barely clung onto its lead with $6.3 billion (£3.1 billion) of sales against Sotheby’s $6.2 billion … Read more
It’s not that I give a hoot about who’s on top—Sotheby’s or Christie’s. But what activates the needle of my sensitive journalistic spin-monitor are Christie’s representations about its sales leadership and superior profitability—claims that are, respectively, exaggerated and unsubstantiated. Read full story at Arts Journal .com