According to Hyperallergic, the bidding led by auctioneer Phyllis Kao started at $10 million—roughly the value of the gold ...

T ransforming a world-class museum into an auction house is more complicated than it sounds. For one thing, Sotheby’s will ...

The auction house’s debut at the Breuer was defined by Gustav Klimt’s late portrait soaring to $236.4 million, anchoring the ...

A gold toilet sculpture created a lot of excitement before the big art auction in New York, but its price underwhelmed ...

The evening's first sale dedicated to the collection of Leonard Lauder achieved $527.5 million and white-glove status.

Visitors thankfully weren’t permitted to actually use the toilet while it was on display, though users have been invited to ...

The sale of “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” topped a previous record for 20th-century art set by an Andy Warhol portrait of ...

Sotheby's sold an astonishing $706 million worth of art in New York on Tuesday night. Katya Kazakina crunched the numbers.

Mercedes Gleitze's Rolex Oyster that she wore swimming the English Channel fetched $1.73 million at Sotheby's Geneva, along ...

The $706m total for the night included a white-glove sale of 24 lots from the collection of late cosmetics heir Leonard ...

Sotheby's did not disclose the identity of the seller of the brooch, and said that the buyer was a "private collector." ...

The top lot of the Sotheby’s auction was a 4.50-carat internally flawless oval mixed-cut fancy vivid blue diamond that ...