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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 ...
A fine art auction at Sotheby's in NYC, in 2010. Bidders could be physically present, or bid online or over the phone. The company eventually bought its York Avenue building for $11 million in 2000 and completed a $140 million expansion and renovation in 2001, [38] adding six floors and 240,000 square feet.
David Normand Redden (January 23, 1949 – May 11, 2024) was an American auctioneer. He spent his entire career, from 1974 to 2016, with Sotheby's where he was a vice-chairman and was Sotheby's longest serving auctioneer.
ELLE DECOR A-List designer Ken Fulk has joined forces with Sotheby’s for its second chapter of Visions of America auction series, a week-long event comprising seven live and online auctions ...
The following is a list of significant artworks by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), who played a historic role in the rise of street art and neo-expressionism. During his short yet productive career, Basquiat created more than 600 paintings and 1,500 drawings. [ 1 ]
Untitled is a painting created by Haitian American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. The artwork, which depicts a skull, is among the most expensive paintings ever. In May 2017, it sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby's, the highest price ever paid at auction for artwork by an American artist in a public sale.