Sotheby's Archives

Sotheby’s offer Pak NFT artworks via a multi-day drop on Nifty Gateway.

8 April 2021 • Mark Westall

Sotheby’s embarks on its debut NFT partnership with Pak, one of the foremost digital creators, to bring their novel works to collectors through a unique sale that will explore the possibilities of crypto technology through the lens of art. ‘The Fungible’ Collection by Pak will be released over a three day period taking place 12th– 14th April, in collaboration with Sotheby’s and exclusively on Nifty Gateway.

Russell Tovey announced as guest curator for this seasons Contemporary Curated London.

30 March 2021 • Mark Westall

Russell Tovey, British actor turned collector, curator, podcast host and “art geek”, has teamed up with Sotheby’s for the ‘Contemporary Curated’ auction in London, which will open for bidding from 6-13 April.

ART NEWS

24hr sale featuring Tom Wesselmann, Alexander Calder, Basquiat, Haring and Albert Oehlen

10 November 2020 • Mark Westall

On the heels of Sotheby’s successful summer sales in May and June 2020, Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Day Auction is to present artworks by leading post-war and contemporary artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Alexander Calder, Tom Wesselmann, Ed Ruscha, Albert Oehlen, Haring, Basquait and Yoshitomo Nara.

ART NEWS

8 ultra-rare artist-created sneakers make up Sothebys ‘Cult Canvas’ sale.

23 September 2020 • Mark Westall

Moments ago, a sale of eight ultra-rare and pristine artist-created sneakers dropped on Sothebys.com in a sale titled ‘Cult Canvas.’ All made exclusively by Nike, the items celebrate the cross section between art and fashion, illustration and design, and sport and culture.

Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring

28 August 2020 • Mark Westall

Dear Keith will present 140+ works of art and objects from Haring’s personal collection, all on offer from the Keith Haring Foundation – an organization established by the artist shortly before his death in 1990 from HIV/AIDS-related causes. Haring’s collection features works gifted to, purchased by and traded with Haring among friends and artists in his community, including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and many more.

The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this Summer

20 July 2020 • Tabish Khan

The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this Summer include Isolation, energy, birth, Rembrandt and masculinity.

Sotheby’s presents “Manga” the largest Manga assemblage ever!

5 May 2020 • Mark Westall

Sotheby’s presents “Manga,” the largest Manga assemblage ever to be offered at auction in Hong Kong, alongside a selling exhibition at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery.

French business Tycoon Patrick Drahi Has Acquired Sotheby’s for $3.7 Billion

18 June 2019 • Mark Westall

Sotheby’s, the 275-year-old auction house, has been acquired by BidFair USA, a company wholly owned by French-Israeli collector and entrepreneur Patrick Drahi—and he is planning to take the publicly traded company private.

ART NEWS

What’s It Worth at Auction?

27 February 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent

Both Sotheby’s (S) and Christies (C) have major London auctions this week, head to head in impressionist, modern and surrealist categories.

Paul's Art Stuff

What’s Wrong With Art: The reaction to the shredded Banksy

17 October 2018 • Tabish Khan

Should we love or hate Banksy.

What’s Wrong With Art?

My week in the art world – Signals to Klein

12 June 2018 • Staff

I did however spend an unsurprising amount of time in Mayfair as S2 opened the third and final component of Signals Reimagined, Levy Gorvy was irresistible in presenting two of my favourite artists in dialogue and Artangel took over Cork Street’s construction site for an incredible fund raising auction.

William Kentridge’s designs for Ornellaia wine raised €140,000 for the upcoming photography centre at the V&A

31 May 2018 • Irene Machetti

Sotheby’s and the Italian winery Ornellaia joined again this year for the tenth edition of the Vendemmia d’Artista. The famous winery from Bolgheri called upon William Kentridge to design the labels for this anniversary. The benefit auction raised €140,000 that will be donated to the Victoria & Albert museum.

The Auction as Show

16 May 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent

Unsurprisingly, the leading auction houses are all selling photographic work to coincide with Photo London (18-21 May). By way of a warm-up, I looked at them as exhibits rather than as potential purchases. Do they make for a good visit?

David Hockney x 4 in New York

1 May 2018 • Mark Westall

Two solo booths at the city’s Frieze Art Fair will be dedicated to the British artist’s work
A solo show of 17 new paintings is on view at Pace Gallery‘s 25th Street location plus
A Hockney painting is expected to shatter his auction record will be on view at Sotheby’s Upper East Side headquarters on May 4.

Award winning charity Outside In bring a ground-breaking exhibition to Sotheby’s in new year.

13 December 2017 • Mark Westall

Discover the journeys of award-winning charity Outside In and the artists it supports in a ground-breaking exhibition at London Sotheby’s in January 2018.

EXHIBITIONS

Ernesto Briel: Pioneering Op Art

11 December 2017 • Mark Westall

Opened this November in Gallery Two of S|2 is a great exhibition of Cuban artist Ernesto Briel’s works from the sixties and seventies.

EXHIBITIONS

Andy Warhol’s Apple Macintosh Painting coming up for sale

8 November 2015 • Mark Westall

When Warhol met Steve Jobs:

“And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”

ART NEWS

Daniel’s Value and Ideas #94: Nobody Puts Basquiat in the Corner

6 November 2015 • daniel barnes

The perennial question that dare not speak its name on pain of heresy is this: what, precisely, is it about Basquiat that inspires such adoration and extravagance?

ART NEWS

Sotheby’s and Artsy to collaborate on online-only contemporary art auction

8 September 2015 • Mark Westall

Sotheby’s and Artsy have just announced their collaboration on an online-only auction..

From today drink, eat and do art at Brown’s London Art Weekend

3 July 2015 • Mark Westall

Discover Brown’s London Art Weekend’s programme of talks, art tours, recommended walks and the Artists menu at HIX Mayfair from today

ART NEWS

Daniel’s Value and Ideas #73: The Interpretation of Freud

12 June 2015 • daniel barnes

A collection of Lucian Freud’s letters is to go on sale at Sotheby’s on 2nd July

ART NEWS

Tabish’s Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week

18 May 2015 • Tabish Khan

This week’s top 7 contains witches, Victorian opulence, tomatoes, plasticine, drawing, kitsch and Russian battles.

ART NEWS

PREVIEW: Henry Hudson “The Contemporary Artist’s Progress: the Rise and Fall of Young Sen” at S|2 Gallery

16 April 2015 • Staff

In Hudson’s labyrinthine world you find Bosch, Breugel and Rembrandt alongside Nigel Farage, Tommy Hilfiger, Hello Kitty and Instagram. Like Hogarth before him, Hudson satirises and celebrates the absurdities of modern life, bringing together the traditions of the great painters with the visual language of the digital age.

ART NEWS

eBay and Sotheby’s Live Auctions Begin tomorrow Wednesday April 1st (this is not an April Fool)

31 March 2015 • Mark Westall

Sotheby’s Exclusive Art and Collectibles will be Available to eBay’s 155 Million Active Buyers In Real Time Anywhere Around the Globe from tomorrow.

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