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When Marcel Breuer's monumental structure opened its doors on Madison Avenue in 1966, it arrived as an architectural statement of uncompromising vision. The Hungarian-American designer, schooled…
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Few twentieth-century artists proved as relentless in their refusal of hierarchy as John Chamberlain. Where others saw waste—crumpled aluminium foil, fragments of discarded automobiles—he perceived the…
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Watch the film on Instagram Few artefacts capture the visual language of imperial dominion as powerfully as the colossal marble torso now preparing for its public…
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Watch the film on Instagram When a work by Mark Rothko arrives for auction, the art world pauses. The unveiling of 'Untitled (Plum and Dark Brown)'…
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The boundary between intention and accident has long preoccupied abstract painters, yet few have navigated it as deliberately as Sam Gilliam. His 1970s masterpiece 'Region and…
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Watch the film on Instagram Few artists have bridged two artistic worlds with the cultural fluency of Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita. The Japanese painter who arrived in…
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The canvas presents itself as a straightforward composition: eight trees rendered in the distinctive visual language of India's pioneering Pop movement. Yet the artist himself claimed…
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Few contemporary artists have managed to dissolve the boundary between artwork and environment as deliberately as Yoshitomo Nara. His latest milestone—'The Crated Room in Iceland/Drawing Room'—achieves…
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Watch the film on Instagram Sotheby's has inaugurated a thematic group exhibition at its Hong Kong Maison that examines the psychological impulses underlying artistic creation. Titled…
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Few collections encapsulate the transformative power of human intellect as profoundly as those devoted to the birth of modern science. Sotheby's New York is set to…
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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