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There exists in the vocabulary of contemporary abstraction a particular alchemy: the moment when a silhouette becomes a narrative, when shadow transforms into the weight of…
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A wide-eyed girl floats against an expanse of darkness, her gaze unflinching and faintly menacing, a single piece of blue candy held to her lips. In…
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The discovery of an entirely new dinosaur genus is rare enough; the arrival of one of only three known skeletal examples at auction is rarer still.…
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For the first time, the meticulously curated interiors of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani's storied hôtel particulier are revealed to the world. This November, Sotheby's Paris presents an historic series of sales that celebrate a lifetime of refined collecting.
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Watch the film on Instagram The sale room at Sotheby's London witnessed an exceptional convergence of artistic rarity and collector appetite this week, when a seminal…
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There exists a particular magic in the restraint of Spanish still life painting, where humble pantry contents become vessels for formal invention and visual poetry. Luis…
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Watch the film on Instagram There is a particular intimacy in examining what an artist chooses to keep. The works an artist lives with, hangs beside,…
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When Marcel Breuer designed the Whitney Museum of American Art's home in 1966, he rejected every convention of institutional architecture. His reverse ziggurat—a bold inversion of…
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There are certain galleries whose walls have witnessed the evolution of taste itself. A La Vieille Russie is one. Founded in Kyiv in 1851 by Jacob…
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Watch the film on Instagram The premise is deceptively simple, yet it speaks to a fundamental shift in how collectors engage with contemporary art. When a…
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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