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30 Jun 2011, 10:14 am by Daniel Schnapp
 Interestingly, Sotheby’s sold a more valuable Renoir painting, “Buste de Femme” in 1987 that, according to defense, was stolen from the same museum on the same day. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 3:59 pm by LawDiva
She later unloaded her Roman statues, Chippendale commode and her George III crystal chandelier at a two-day Sotheby’s auction. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 7:01 am by Donn Zaretsky
Courthouse News Service reports that a "couple say they paid a New York art dealer $15,000 for a painting by French realist Rosa Bonheur 20 years ago, only to find out this year when they consigned it to Sotheby's that the painting was done by Bonheur's brother. [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 8:38 am by Ray Dowd
   The work was consigned for sale to Sotheby's, where it was seen by the French police, who notified customs.Decision below.US v Davis, The Painting Known as Le March by Camille Pissarro(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];… [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 8:03 am by Dan Ernst
A page from Lansing's notebook New York, NY, May 31, 2011—At an auction held on Friday, May 20, at Sotheby’s, the Chairman of the New-York Historical Society, Roger Hertog, purchased the Constitutional Convention notebooks of John Lansing, Jr., a New York delegate to the 1787 Philadelphia [read post]
31 May 2011, 11:53 am by Daniel Schnapp
" Also, his 1978 "Shadow-Red" sold for $4.8 million at Sotheby's, more than five times its high estimate. [read post]
31 May 2011, 11:48 am by Daniel Schnapp
According to the Wall Street Journal, New York's week of contemporary art auctions came resulted in collectors taking home more than $700 million of new art at Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips de Pury & Co. [read post]
31 May 2011, 11:40 am by Daniel Schnapp
According to this Reuters article, strong demand for Brazilian abstract art and works by Colombia's Fernando Botero propelled Sotheby's to its best-selling auction of Latin American art with more than $21.6 million in sales. [read post]
28 May 2011, 11:14 pm by LawDiva
On December 29, 2010 I wrote a story about a former New York Sotheby’s auction executive, Michael Melnitzky, who had been a cracker jack in his vocation, but after a messy divorce spent most of his time engaged in lawsuits of various kinds. [read post]
16 May 2011, 10:47 am by Greg Guedel
According to Sotheby’s, buyers of high-end Native American art and artifacts are rarely Native Americans themselves. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 3:04 pm by Daniel Schnapp
    For example, if you were to cross-reference Fernand Leger’s Nature Morte Sur Fond Gris (1950), you will find that while a Sotheby’s catalog from 2002 lists three previous owners, the catalogue raisonne shows an additional previous owner and a previous sale at Sotheby’s. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 3:31 am by Dan
  Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty, a well known and respected real estate brokerage company with over 100 agents filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy a few days ago. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 1:32 pm by Donn Zaretsky
""Sotheby’s has provided a guarantee for the work but we won’t know for some time whether they finally broke their self-imposed ban on providing the guarantees themselves. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 1:52 am by Colin Murray
Speakers will include Dr Illan rua Wall, one of our regular contributors at HRiI, amongst other experts on Agamben’s work: Andrea Rossi (Lancaster University) Anthony Downey (Sotheby’s, Institute of Art) Colby Dickinson (Leuven University) Frank Ruda (University of Berlin) Illan rua Wall (Oxford Brookes) Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne) Kevin Attell (Cornell University) Lorenzo Chiesa (University of Kent) Paolo Palladino (Lancaster University) Thanos Zartaloudis… [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 7:08 pm by Donn Zaretsky
They can -- and do -- sell them all the time.The story begins by cataloging a bunch of recent sales:"On Thursday at Sotheby’s in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art is putting 32 old-master paintings up for auction, and the J. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 7:59 am by Kimberly Alderman
  Last October, the painting appeared in a Sotheby’s New York catalogue for an auction [...] [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 10:28 am by LawDiva
Melnitzky no longer works for Sotheby’s. [read post]