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Showing posts with label Sotheby's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sotheby's. Show all posts

Monday, September 12, 2022

Brilliant & Black: A Jewellery Renaissance

Sotheby's is bringing it back with more designers and a different theme: Enlightenment. All the jewels will be on display at the Sotheby's New Bond Street Galleries from September 22 to October 2. A smaller selection of pieces will remain available for viewing through the end of October.


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Saturday, February 12, 2022

Sotheby’s To Auction 104 CryptoPunks NFTs

CrptoPunks were some of the earliest NFTs and have come to be a leading visual symbol of the global NFT movement. We will find out the price realized in a live evening auction on February 23, 2022.


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Friday, January 28, 2022

Sandro Botticelli The Man of Sorrows

Sandro Botticell's The Man of Sorrows has been sold at Sotheby's for US$45.5 million, making it the second most expensive work by the Italian Renaissance painter ever to be sold at auction.


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Thursday, December 23, 2021

Gérald Genta: Icon Of Time

Sotheby's has announced it will offer 100 original drawings from the 'Picasso of Watchmaking' in spring 2022 with NFT replicas of each physical artwork. Select drawings and watercolors will showcase never before seen archive material and multimedia biographical content. Collectors take note,


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Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Friday, December 10, 2021

The Medusa Necklace

The Medusa necklace, one of the earliest pieces designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany has been sold for more than 18 times (US$3,650,000) its high estimate (US$100,000-200,000) at a recent Sotheby's auction.


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Friday, November 12, 2021

The Collection Of HIH Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna

A collection of Romanov jewels smuggled out of Russia for safekeeping during the 1917 revolution has smashed its high estimate at a recent Sotheby's Geneva sale. Take a look.


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Friday, October 15, 2021

Banksy's Love Is In The Bin

Sold at the Sotheby's for US$25.4 million. What's Love is in the Bin? Is it a painting? Or, is it now a piece of conceptual art? Or should it be classified as a sculpture? Or is it rubbish? Who decides? Who knows? Duchamp would say it is up to you to decide.

Useful links: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58908768 I https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/banksy-brings-down-the-house-at-the-contemporary-art-evening-auction