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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 Private collection Christie's, New York [3] $38.9 $27.5 Grande Femme Debout II: Alberto Giacometti ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sotheby's will pay $6.25 million and adopt reforms to settle New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit accusing the famed auction house of fraudulently helping clients ...
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]
In 1990, the gallery teamed up with Sotheby's auction house, to form Acquavella Modern Art, a subsidiary of Sotheby's Holding Company. The subsidiary paid $143 million for the contents of the Pierre Matisse Gallery in Manhattan, which included about 2,300 works by such artists as Miró , Jean Dubuffet , Alberto Giacometti , and Marc Chagall ...
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