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Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sells for record-breaking $236.4M

Gustav Klimt's "Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer" (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer), sold for $236.4 million at auction Tuesday, November 18, 2025, in New York.

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Published on Nov 20, 2025 09:04 pm IST

Duct-tape banana artwork sold for $6 mn, buyer is crypto entrepreneur

People look at Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped Banana titled Comedian.

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Updated on Nov 21, 2024 11:19 am IST

Freddie Mercury’s worldly possessions to be sold at Sotheby’s London auction

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Published on Apr 26, 2023 01:13 pm IST

Michael Jordan's shoes break record, sell for $2.2 million

Michael Jordan's shoes sold for $2.2 million.

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Published on Jun 09, 2023 01:44 pm IST

Sotheby auctions off artworks for USD 676 million after Macklowe divorce

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Published on Nov 17, 2021 12:41 pm IST

Sotheby’s London auction house to sell British seascape by painter JMW Turner

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Updated on Jul 07, 2021 05:47 pm IST

Van Gogh's 1887 Paris street painting to be shown in public for first time

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Updated on Feb 25, 2021 09:56 am IST

Texas ranch heiress' art collection, worth about $150 million, up for auction

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Updated on Feb 25, 2021 09:36 am IST

Botticelli's 1470s 'masterpiece' expected to sell for $80 million in New York

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Updated on Jan 28, 2021 08:31 am IST

The super-rich are buying luxury online like never before

Mass market retailers aren’t the only ones betting on a banner online holiday sales season.

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Updated on Dec 08, 2020 03:26 pm IST

Rare pink diamond described as ‘true wonder of nature’ fetches $26.6 million at Sotheby’s Geneva sale

A model poses with "The Spirit of the Rose", the world's largest vivid purple-pink diamond with 14.83-carat.

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Updated on Nov 12, 2020 11:26 am IST

New York sues Sotheby’s for helping important client escape sales taxes on artwork

A sign marking Sotheby’s headquarters is seen on the Upper East Side of New York City, U.S.

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Updated on Nov 07, 2020 10:28 am IST

Brooklyn museum reaps $19.9 million from Sotheby’s art sale

A oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet. (Representational Image)

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Updated on Oct 30, 2020 01:32 pm IST

Israeli museum plans to sell off rare Islamic antiquities

The L A Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem plans to put 190 pieces on the block at Sotheby’s on Tuesday. (Representational Image.)

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Updated on Oct 27, 2020 04:46 pm IST

Banksy artwork sells for almost $10 million at auction

“Show Me the Monet” sold to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday evening.

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Updated on Oct 23, 2020 10:36 am IST

Beastie Boys’ Mike D is selling his mom’s $30 million art collection

In Hester Diamond’s apartment: Jorg Lederer’s Saint Sebastian (left), estimated from $600,000 to $1.2 million, and Dustin Yellin’s Small Figure No. 48 .

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Updated on Oct 16, 2020 08:18 pm IST

World’s largest vivid pink diamond from Russia to be auctioned on November 11

The 14.83-carat diamond, named “The Spirit of the Rose,” is the largest vivid purple-pink diamond ever offered at auction. (Representational Image)

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Updated on Oct 13, 2020 02:33 pm IST

Ronald Perelman to sell Rothko and De Kooning art works at Christie’s Auction

Christie’s said it will offer Rothko’s 1967 “Untitled,” with a $30 million to $50 million estimate. (Representational Image)

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Updated on Sept 26, 2020 02:34 pm IST

Ellen DeGeneres Is Selling $10 Million of Art in Hamptons

Television talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres is quietly selling millions of dollars worth of art.

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Updated on Sept 24, 2020 12:15 am IST

Banksy’s Show Me the Monet to go on sale next month

Artwork entitled "Show me the Monet" by the artist Banksy, is pictured during a photocall at Sotheby's auction house in London, ahead of the forthcoming 'Modernites/Contemporary' evening auction set to take place in October.

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Published on Sept 20, 2020 01:40 pm IST

$15 million Basquiat painting to be highlight of Phillips’ Hamptons outlet

A file photo of Jean-Michel Basquiat with his artwork in the background in New York. (Representational Image)

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Updated on Aug 14, 2020 08:13 pm IST

From Rembrandt to Richter: Billionaire Ronald Perelman to sell Matisse, Miro works for $53 million

Perelman’s Miro at Sotheby’s has the highest estimate in the sale that also includes a self portrait by Rembrandt.

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Updated on Jul 27, 2020 07:10 pm IST

Art amid Covid-19: Rembrandt and Picasso entice art lovers back to auctions after lockdown

Gallery assistants pose with 'Peinture (Femme Au Chapeau Rouge)' by Spanish artist Joan Miro during a media preview for 'Rembrandt to Richter' at Sotheby's auction house in London, Britain, July 23 2020.

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Updated on Jul 27, 2020 05:49 pm IST

Lichtenstein Nude leads Christie’s livestream auction, produces $421 million

The live-streamed event had been postponed from May due to the pandemic.

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Updated on Jul 16, 2020 09:49 pm IST

Burmese sapphire, Colombian emeralds, vivid yellow diamond ring to dazzle at Sotheby’s Geneva auction

A Fancy Intense Pink marquise-shaped diamond weighing 7.00 carats, (estimated US$ 2.5 - 3.5 million) and a Fancy Vivid Blue step-cut diamond weighing 3.01 carats (estimated US$ 4.3 - 6.3 million) are pictured during a media presentation at Sotheby's before the resuming of live jewellery auctions after the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown in Geneva, Switzerland, June 21, 2020.

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Updated on Jun 24, 2020 10:30 am IST

Ken Griffin buys Basquiat painting for more than $100 million

Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid more than $100 million for a canvas by Jean-Michel Basquiat, the late black artist who focused on issues of race and inequality.

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Updated on Jun 06, 2020 07:28 pm IST