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The monumental presence of a dog rendered in gleaming stainless steel and polychrome has occupied a private sanctuary for the better part of three decades. Now,…
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When Georg Baselitz turned his canvas upside down in 1969, he made one of the most daring gestures in the history of modern painting. What appeared,…
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The archaeologist's gaze has long animated Daniel Arsham's artistic vision, a sensibility that transforms the contemporary moment into something ancient and unfamiliar. Two new works, 'Jungle…
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In the summer of 1996, during a period of profound artistic introspection, David Bowie created a small and deliberate group of self-portraits, numbering just eight works…
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In 1960, just two years after Yayoi Kusama arrived in New York from Japan, she created a work that would anchor her arrival within the American…
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Watch the film on Instagram Four centuries have passed since Galileo Galilei pressed his eye to the telescope and witnessed the heavens transform. The treatise that…
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A trailblazing collection of postwar and contemporary masterworks, meticulously assembled by two visionary collectors, will anchor Sotheby's New York Sales this November. More than twenty exceptional works by luminaries of abstraction, Pop and Conceptual art make their long awaited return to auction.
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In the lexicon of twentieth century fashion, few garments carry the weight of cultural significance attached to a single moment in time. Yet when the Princess…
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To inhabit a Frank Gehry building is to surrender certainty. Walls curve where convention dictates they should stand straight. Volumes soar and compress in the same…
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When the doors to Sotheby's New York opened on a Saturday in October, the air carried the particular electricity of a gathering designed not for transaction…
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.
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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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