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The company was founded by a group of employees of the American Art Association, including Otto Bernet, Hiram H. Parke, Leslie A. Hyam, Lewis Marion and Mary Vandergrift. By 1964, the company was the largest auction house in America, [1] with 115 employees and total sales of $11 million ($108 million in 2023). That year, Sotheby's purchased a ...
An art auction in Newton, Massachusetts, USA (Tremont Auctions) Sotheby's New York City headquarters on York Avenue Christie's New York City headquarters in Rockefeller Center. An art auction or fine art auction is the sale of art works, in most cases in an auction house.
Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana, titled “Comedian,” is displayed at Sotheby’s in New York on Nov. 8. For most art-world buyers, a work unsubtly called “Comedian” lacked a certain ...
Sotheby's, New York [5] $42 $28.6 Artemis and the Stag: Unknown c.100 BC – 100 AD 7 June 2007: Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Private collection Sotheby's, New York [4] $36.3 $28.2 Popeye: Jeff Koons: 2009 - 2011 14 May 2014: Sotheby's, New York [29] $42.9 $27.5 Bird in Space: Constantin Brâncuși: 1922–1923 5 May 2005: Private collection ...
Claim to the Parke-Bernet auction house, New York The painting was confiscated in France during World War II; In 1969 it was auctioned in New York; its whereabouts are unknown. No returns, the auction house (now Sotheby's) did not disclose the name of the buyer. [239] Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Paysage pres de Cagnes. Oil on canvas, Richard Semmel
In 1980, after a drop in sales, [68] Sotheby's relocated its North American headquarters from Madison Avenue to a former cigar factory [38] at 1334 York Avenue, New York. In 1982, the auction house closed its Madison Avenue galleries at East 76th Street, and its Los Angeles galleries were sold and West Coast auctions moved to New York. [69]
Between his start at Sotheby's and the mid-1990s, Redden created numerous new auction categories for the company, including the specialty categories such as “space-memorabilia”, [6] “baseball memorabilia, comic books, arcade machines, and computerized animation art.” [4] Early in his career, in the late 1970s, he was appointed the ...
Sotheby's, New York [127] $100.3 $70.6 (£50) Diana and Actaeon: Titian 1556–1559 February 1, 2009: Duke of Sutherland: National Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, London: Private sale [128] [129] [130] $100 $40.7 Au Lapin Agile: Pablo Picasso: 1904 November 27, 1989: 5 Linda de Roulet, daughter of Joan Whitney Payson: Walter H ...