Sothebys Holdings News

Sotheby's announced its forthcoming sale of a private collection of Ottoman art, 'An Eye for Opulence: Art of the Ottoman Empire', which will take place on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 during 'Turkish and Islamic Week: Classical to Contemporary'. The single owner sale will comprise a broad selection of works across a variety of media, spanning more ... (more)

The world is replete with private auto collections that rival the best any museum has to offer.

Recently, a collection of rare antique toys amassed by the late millionaire Malcolm Forbes and his sons fetched $2.3 million at Sotheby's. Now, the auction house is proudly auctioning the world's largest toy collection with an estimated value in the tens of millions of dollars.

Artist couples have given the world some of its most extraordinary and passionate love stories.

Simon Tam, Head of Wine, Christie's China, bids for a telephone client at Christie's wine auction in Hong Kong.

MGM Resorts International has partnered with Sotheby's to unload on unsuspecting Canadians their failed CityCenter residential real estate play at discounts of up to 50% off.

There's an elegant tragedy that wafts throughout Madonna's second feature film directing effort "W./E.", which opened today in San Francisco at the Bridge Theater .

Bonhams kicks off on Monday, followed by Christie's , Sotheby's and Phillips de Pury .

Sotheby's International Realty just lowered the price of this never-before-lived-in house at 640 Island Drive to $13.75 million.

The auctioneer rattled off prices and artists' names with breathtaking speed, punctuating every sale with the announcement "Saa ... saa ... saa -- TIM!" meaning sold in English.

It's the time of year when hammers are poised at the world's major auction houses and the strength of the art market for the coming year is tested.

When the venerable PBS appraisal show airs the three hours shot in Pittsburgh beginning Monday, one of the locals who made the cut was Robert, a retired schoolteacher from the Mon Valley.

"Vue de l'Asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Remy" by Vincent van Gogh. The 1889 painting was part of the collection of Elizabeth Taylor.

Sotheby's London sale of Musical Instruments on Tuesday, 6 March, 2012 will offer a violin by Nicolo Amati, one of the greatest names in violin making history.

Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter and Francis Bacon paintings will boost auctions this month that may raise more than $611 million as sellers are spurred by rising prices for museum-quality works.

Sotheby's and Christie's, the world's leading auctioneers, hold a series of big sales in London over the next two weeks at which the old rivals expect to raise more than 500 million pounds .

Of the $40 million in annual sales that Leslie Hindman Auctioneers has tallied up in recent years, about 10 percent of that total alone came from jewelry consigned by customers in Palm Beach and the surrounding area.

About 50 University of Vermont students, labor leaders and community activists told the university board of trustees Friday that Trustee William Ruprecht should either end a lockout of 42 unionized workers at Sotheby's art auction house in New York City where he is CEO or he should resign from the board.

A group of activists are planning to protest the labor practices of New York's Sotheby's art auction house at a meeting of the University of Vermont board of trustees in Burlington.

Venetian artist Canaletto's "Venice, a View of the Churches of the Redentore and San Giacomo, with a Moored Man-of-War, Gondolas and Barges," was Sotheby's top lot, fetching just under $5.7 million.