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Businessman who bought auction house in 2019 to receive second dividend in six months
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Controversy over whether Leonardo painted ‘Salvator Mundi’ conceals a messy reality
Interest in digital artworks have soared amid surging demand for non-fungible tokens
Family portrait in the collection of the Mountbatten family embarrassed the man who commissioned it
Auction houses face the prospect of enforcing anti-money-laundering rules as strict as those in the banking industry
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Houses experiment in reproducing online the glamour and adrenalin of physical sales
Watches chief expects auctions will become marquee events for just exceptional lots, with the rest sold online or privately
Jewellers, auction houses and property agents report a brisk business in rare gems, autographed trainers and $19m Hamptons homes during Covid-19
Painting is one of only three in private hands and carries estimate of £12m-£16m
The chairman of Sotheby’s Asia has witnessed huge changes in markets and tastes
The private collection is billed as one of the most important ever to go under the hammer
Bid has attracted pushback from one of the auction house’s largest stockholders
Auction house comes under fire over sale of its own business
Auction house faces shareholder vote on $3.7bn takeover by French telecoms magnate
Sotheby’s has gone under the hammer for $3.
Individual sales are setting records but money is concentrated at the top of the market only
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‘I am making this investment for my family,’ says telecom and media entrepreneur after spending $3.7bn
The world’s two largest auction houses are now privately owned by French billionaires
Six bidders vied for eight minutes over the 1890 painting, Sotheby’s said
Experiences of auctioneer’s earliest female employees highlighted on 275th anniversary
Sotheby’s auctions personal effects of champion of free market economics
The auction house also saw a sharp rise in private sales
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