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4 Dec 2008, 8:30 pm
Derek Fincham notes that Sotheby's withdrew "an important 13th century belt buckle" from an Old Masters auction last night after questions were raised about its authenticity. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 4:19 pm
The resulting firm, Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, was cast as a threat to the duopoly of Christie's and Sotheby's. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 9:50 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Sotheby's had announced that it was done with guarantees. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 8:53 pm
The head of its wine department, Serena Sutcliffe, told him many of his bottles were counterfeit, and Sotheby's refused the commission. [read post]
8 Nov 2008, 2:31 am
The Art Market Monitor reports that Sotheby's is done with guarantees. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 9:39 pm
In the Halsey Minor-Sotheby's litigation, the parties are skirmishing over whether Minor's separate class action lawsuit in California can proceed, but, in their most recent brief, filed earlier this week, Sotheby's gets in a few jabs on the substance (all citations omitted):"Minor argues in conclusory terms that 'because Sotheby's employs a disclosure standard that contravenes the mandates of New York City's auction house disclosure law,… [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 12:25 pm
Sotheby's Inc [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]
14 Oct 2008, 2:56 am
(Sotheby's has moved to enjoin the California lawsuit.) [read post]
8 Oct 2008, 1:57 pm
According to the Wall Street Journal, tech entrepreneur and multimillionaire Halsey Minor bought the painting shown at left, Edward Hicks' "The Peaceable Kingdom With the Leopard of Serenity," from Sotheby's for $9.6 million. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 3:17 am
" The collection had been promised by John Friede to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, but "litigation in three states, with [Friede's] two brothers, the museum and Sotheby's auction house all laying claim to the art," has put the gift in doubt.Lee Rosenbaum recalls a previous Friede fracas here. [read post]
3 Oct 2008, 9:15 am
A painting with the words “peaceable” and “serenity” in the title has led to a vicious court battle between a big wig tech mogul and the auction house Sotheby’s. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 12:26 am
Otherwise, a set of Kate Moss paintings sold at Sotheby's auction and set a record for Banksy's work - some £50,000. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 1:53 pm
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 2:57 pm
Take the case of the two major auction houses: Christie’s and Sotheby’s. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 2:16 pm
 My completely pointless trip over here, to report on something I could easily have done from a caff in Hoxton, is a metaphor for excess, to contrast the fortunes of a 158 year old US bank with the soaring fortune and fortunes of the greatest living Englishman, artist Damien Hirst, who has just flogged off two years of work for over £70 million quid; trousering most of that because Sotheby's, perhaps bizarrely, waived their commission fee and Hirst decided not to line the… [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 12:15 pm
Berlind, 75; former Telemundo Chief Executive Roland Hernandez, 50; Michael Ainslie, 64, former chief executive of Sotheby's Holdings; Marsha Johnson Evans, 61, one-time head of the Red Cross and a former Navy rear admiral. [read post]
5 Sep 2008, 3:18 pm
The New York Times has more today on the dispute between Sotheby's and Cnet founder Halsey Minor, which I mentioned earlier this week.I've also heard directly from Minor, who gave me permission to print the following email:"Sotheby's is spending all their time talking about what I said at this time or at that time or why I didn't have the money, etc, etc. [read post]
5 Sep 2008, 1:20 pm
(By the way, The Newsday headline: "Sotheby's Art Attack on Tycoon"). [read post]
4 Sep 2008, 4:33 am
"Sotheby's counters that "[o]ver the last several weeks Mr. [read post]
