New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
An Italian author has filed a $32 million lawsuit accusing Sotheby's of losing his 16th-century painting. Giancorrado Ulrich sent a painting he believed to be "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," by the Renaissance painter Parmigianino, to the New...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Milan collector who says Sotheby's lost a painting by Italian mannerist Parmigianino he sent them three years ago sued the New York auction house for $32 million on Wednesday.
the Big Sky Blog (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
If you’ve got $17 million dollars to spare, then the folks over at Sotheby’s Realty have got a deal for you: your very own private island estate in Montana! Own a private island on Whitefish Lake. This estate is situated on 10 acres with incredible views and over 2600 waterfront feet. Custom built 7,554 [...]
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sandra Baldwin, a Russ Lyon Sotheby's International Realty agent has more than $1 billion in sales to prove it.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
"Select banks and the two major auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, have been offering art financing for a long time. But in recent years, as values in the art market have risen, more and more collectors have taken advantage of it."...
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Three signed first edition copies of books by CS Lewis have sold for a total of £30,000 at an auction in Sotheby’s. This was more than three times the price they expected to fetch. The sale in London had experts were predicting that the books would fetch around £3,000 each but bidding on the [...]
The Tampa Bay Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Chad Roffers has bought out the last major partner of Sky Sotheby's International Realty, solidifying his position as the Sarasota company's primary owner.
The First Post (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The battle to win the rights to sell Yves St Laurent's £250m art collection – a contest between Christie's and Sotheby's - has been resolved, with Christie's emerging triumphant. As…
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
NEW YORK CITY - The Art Loss Register (ALR) has recovered a Mario Carreño painting with the cooperation of Sotheby's New York and the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Companies. The painting, a gouache on paper entitled Tres Mujeres, was hanging in the offices of a New York law firm when it was stolen in October 1993. The painting was not seen again until years later, when it was discovered by a woman in...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Immortality can be had for a price. The first in a short summer series James Stourton, the chairman of Sotheby's UK, is a tall, stooping man with a faintly academic air about him who manages to make his work his play. He collects collectors; indeed he has written the book about them. For a series about collecting, Mr Stourton's office in New Bond Street is the place to start. He starts at the beginning....
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Beatrix Potter Watercolor Sold For $600k The auction house Sotheby's said it had expected the illustration by the famous 19th Century children's book author to sell for between $80,000 and $120,000....
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
At Sotheby's London auction, Beatrix Potter's watercolour The Rabbits' Christmas Party (1890s) set a new record by becoming the most expensive book illustration ever sold at auction. It went under the hammer for £289,250 to a private British collector. It's pre-sale estimated value was between £40,000 and £60,000. Book and magazine illustrations have long been ignored by the Brit. Anti-art Establishment,...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Bill Ruprecht took over as chief executive of Sotheby's in 2000, after the auction house had been plunged into crisis with the news that it and rival Christie's had...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Christie's and Sotheby's sold $7bn worth of artworks in the first six months of the year, 12% more than last year. Chinese and Indians emerge as increasingly big buyers
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A cache of love letters from the novelist John Fowles to a young student who appeared to become his own French Lieutenant's Woman have sold at Sotheby's for £25,000.
