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A dreamlike oceanic reverie by the celebrated British artist achieved a remarkable result at Sotheby's London, captivating collectors with its profound symbolic depth and technical virtuosity.
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Watch the film on Instagram To encounter a Francis Bacon self-portrait is to stand before an act of profound artistic courage. The painter, throughout his most…
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Watch the film on Instagram The digital canvas has emerged as a legitimate and deeply compelling arena for artistic expression, nowhere more so than in the…
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The hammer fell this evening at Sotheby's London on an untitled canvas by Willem de Kooning, a work that stands among the finest achievements of the…
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Watch the film on Instagram The genesis of legend frequently passes unrecorded, its earliest threads woven in obscurity before the world's gaze falls upon the finished…
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Few works capture the crystalline light and contemplative spirit of Cape Cod summers quite as luminously as Edward Hopper's The Martha McKeen of Wellfleet. Painted in…
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In 1961, a revelation emerged from an artist's studio. Michelangelo Pistoletto, intent on executing a conventional self-portrait on canvas, observed his own reflection shimmering across the…
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Watch the film on Instagram The arrival of Jodi at Madison Avenue marks a moment of singular importance in the annals of palaeontological collecting. Extracted from…
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Watch the film on Instagram There exists in the contemporary art world a particular species of moment: when an emerging voice, still in youth, creates a…
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The bowler hat is perhaps the twentieth century's most democratic object: it adorned everyone and no one, the uniform of the ordinary man. René Magritte understood…
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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