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Watch the film on Instagram In the hierarchy of liquid rarity, certain objects transcend their category to become cultural artefacts. The Macallan 1926 occupies precisely this…
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Colour and carnival memory converge in a work that has inhabited the deepest chambers of private collecting for half a century. Cézanne's Arlequin, painted between 1888…
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The morning light in Turner's imagination was never ordinary. Golden, ethereal, almost transcendent, it animated his visions of landscape with a poetry that seemed to dissolve…
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The emergence of a significant private collection is a rare event in the contemporary art market. On this occasion, Sotheby's has announced the forthcoming sale of…
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Watch the film on Instagram Few moments in the auction calendar carry the weight of rediscovery. This November, Sotheby's New York will present Châtaigniers en Fleurs,…
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Watch the film on Instagram A monumental work by J.M.W. Turner, among the most consequential examples of the British Romantic master's oeuvre remaining outside institutional collections,…
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Watch the film on Instagram The gavel fell to sustained applause at Sotheby's Hong Kong as 'Conversation d'élégantes au jardin' found its buyer, delivering a decisive…
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Watch the film on Instagram The auction room fell silent as bidding intensified for one of Impressionism's most treasured visions. Paysage avec figures, a canvas that…
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Watch the film on Instagram When a collection achieves a perfect result, every lot finding its buyer, the outcome speaks to something deeper than market appetite.…
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Watch the film on Instagram The mastery of imperial porcelain during the Yongzheng reign represents a zenith of Chinese ceramic achievement. Among the most accomplished expressions…
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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