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4 Apr 2013, 2:19 pm
In November 2001, the executors of Lord Howard sold at Sotheby’s the portrait of Omai by Sir Joshua Reynolds. [read post]
9 Mar 2013, 10:09 am
In the latest development in the Cambodian government’s effort to seize a thousand-year-old, five-hundred-pound sculpture from Sotheby’s, where it has been consigned by its owner for auction, two lawyers from the United States Attorney’s Office in Manhattan traveled to the Cambodian jungle in late February. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 8:55 am
Cambodia has asked the United States government for help in recovering a thousand-year-old statue of a mythic warrior that sits in limbo at Sotheby’s in New York and that some experts believe was looted amid the convulsions of the Vietnam War and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 2:20 pm
The provocative artist by the pseudonym of “Banksy” has been known for provocative and politically-driven sardonic street art since the 1990s.[1] The artist has been making headlines with artworks such as the “Balloon Girl” which self-destructed after fetching $1.4 at Sotheby’s in 2019[2] and the 2020 pink refugee rescue boat, Louise Michel. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 5:48 am
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe UK issues export bar for £3.4m Turner masterpiece sold at Sotheby’s auction: Following an application for an export licence by its owner after buying it at auction in July 2018, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced it should be temporarily blocked from leaving the country in the… Read More »3 December 2018 The post 3 December 2018 appeared first on Art@Law. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 4:03 pm
The other big art law story today: twin class-action lawsuits against Sotheby's and Christie's alleging violations of the California Resale Royalty Act. [read post]
18 Mar 2019, 3:16 pm
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Lyon & Turnbull latest auction house to stop selling rhino horn: It joins Sotheby’s and Bonhams in recently banning the sale of these items. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 12:53 pm
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum sold one of O'Keeffe's "classic flower paintings" for $44.4 million at Sotheby's this morning.The painting had of course been Held In The Public Trust but, when reached for comment, a spokesperson for the Deaccession Police said: Nothing to see here, move along.I covered the particular absurdity of this example, with an assist from Peter Dean, here. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 6:20 am
This past Monday, August 27, federal prosecutors filed court papers on behalf of Cambodia accusing Sotheby's of knowing that the 10th century work--which was to be sold at auction in New York City--"was an important piece of cultural property that had been stolen" from its homeland during the violent upheavals [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 6:14 am
Steven Brooks, a collector of Old Masters, says that a painting he bought from Sotheby’s for £57,600 in 2004 (about $90,000 today) is worthless because it was once owned by the war criminal Hermann Goering, and might have been looted by the Nazis. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 7:00 am
Was it rashness, a need to burn a hole in his wallet, or simply sheer passion that prompted a buyer to fork out more than $90,000,000 for Sandro Botticelli’s “Young Man Holding a Roundel” at Sotheby’s New York auction in January 2021? [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 6:19 pm
Principle of the LLC and the principle blog writer, Michael McCullough, is a former associate counsel to Sotheby's. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 6:27 am
Despite recent worldwide economic turmoil, the art market reached a new high last week when a life-size bronze sculpture depicting the figure of a man by Alberto Giacometti was sold at auction for the world record price of $104.3 million at Sotheby's in London. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 9:37 am
The panelists included Sherri Cohen (Bonhams), Mari-Claudia Jiménez (Sotheby’s), Jonathan Illari (Phillips Auctioneers), Margaret J. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 3:53 am
The trial of a sixth, brought by Sotheby’s chair Domenico De Sole and his wife, Eleanore, is scheduled to begin on 25 January. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 4:49 pm
In response to this post about his dispute with Sotheby's, Halsey Minor sent me the following email (and permission to print it):"Donn, just a few small facts you may wish to bear in mind. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 3:19 pm
In November 2001, the executors of Lord Howard sold at Sotheby’s the portrait of Omai by Sir Joshua Reynolds. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 5:48 am
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe UK issues export bar for £3.4m Turner masterpiece sold at Sotheby’s auction: Following an application for an export licence by its owner after buying it at auction in July 2018, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced it should be temporarily blocked from leaving the country in the… Read More »3 December 2018 The post 3 December 2018 appeared first on Art@Law. [read post]
8 May 2012, 11:13 am
, by Laura Saunders: Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” recently sold for $120 million at an auction conducted by Sotheby’s in New York. ... [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 10:29 am
* * * Old Masters Faked The 2011 private sale involving a “modern forgery” was undone five years later, when Sotheby’s auction house recognized that it sold the work under a false attribution to Frans Hale. [read post]
