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Watch the film on Instagram A sapphire with provenance reaching into the Russian Imperial court crossed the auction block at Sotheby's Geneva, commanding the attention of…
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When Cézanne took his uncle Dominique Aubert before him with brush and knife, he was not interested in the niceties of recognition. Across nine paintings, he…
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Watch the film on Instagram The bowler hat is René Magritte's most recognisable signature: that anonymous silhouette, that symbol of the everyman and of the artist…
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Red, in Rothko's hands, was never simply colour. It was presence itself, a force that could radiate across a room and settle into the viewer's consciousness…
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Watch the film on Instagram The sea rendered in pigment carries meaning across centuries. Gaetano Gandolfi, working in the eighteenth century, approached the subject with baroque…
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A radiant silkscreen of country music's most luminous star, commissioned four decades ago, reveals the intersection of pop art and American legend. The work goes to auction this November.
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The black silk evening gown that rewrote the grammar of royal dress thirty two years ago has crossed the threshold into the auction room. Princess Diana's…
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When Aaron Douglas painted Harriet Tubman for Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, he created one of the Harlem Renaissance's most visionary works: a portrait that…
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Watch the film on Instagram A shared passion for the visionaries who reshaped post-war art drew Theodore and Ruth Baum across continents and decades, each journey…
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When a single owner's devotion to an era crystallises into a collection of uncommon coherence, the art world takes notice. Sotheby's New York now offers collectors…
Read the story →The most recent story is The Royal Romanov Sapphire Returns to the Auction Block, published on 12 November 2026.
Recent stories include Cézanne’s Uncle Dominique: Nine Portraits That Dissolved the Boundaries of Likeness; Magritte’s Bowler Hat Becomes a Landscape; Rothko’s Radiant Red: A Masterwork from the Baum Collection Comes to Sotheby’s New York; Sotheby’s Charts a Dialogue Across Centuries: Old Masters Meet Contemporary Vision.
Sotheby's appears in Art.
Simply Luxury has published 140 stories about Sotheby's, all collected on this page and updated as new launches are announced.
The auction house founded in London in 1744, a leading marketplace for art, jewels and luxury.
Our most recent Sotheby's story is The Royal Romanov Sapphire Returns to the Auction Block, published on 12 November 2026. Watch the film on Instagram A sapphire with provenance reaching into the Russian Imperial court crossed the auction block at Sotheby's Geneva, commanding the attention of bidders across continents and achieving 4,122,000...
Simply Luxury has published 140 stories on Sotheby's, including: The Royal Romanov Sapphire Returns to the Auction Block; Cézanne’s Uncle Dominique: Nine Portraits That Dissolved the Boundaries of Likeness; Magritte’s Bowler Hat Becomes a Landscape; Rothko’s Radiant Red: A Masterwork from the Baum Collection Comes to Sotheby’s New York.
Our Sotheby's stories appear in Art, and every one is gathered on this page.
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