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Market Cap:$1.3B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$917.7M
- Public
- US
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Sothebys (or, together with its subsidiaries, unless the context otherwise requires, the Company) is one of the worlds two largest auctioneers of authenticated fine art, antiques and decorative art, jewelry and collectibles. In 2008, Sothebys accounted for $4.9 billion, or 51%, of the total aggregate auction sales of the two major auction houses that comprise the global auction market.
Number of Employees 1,638
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NAICS Code Art Dealers: 453920
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Records for Munch, Leger at New York auction
- 2008-05-08
NEW YORK AFP — Works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse have been sold at a Sotheby's sale of impressionist and modern art in New York, with new records for works by Edvard Munch and cubist Fernand Leger helping to calm some fears over the health of the art market....
Bacon work tipped for record at New York auction
- 2008-03-24
NEW YORK AFP — A painting by Dublin-born British artist Francis Bacon is tipped to fetch a record 70 million dollars when it goes under the hammer in New York in May, Sotheby's said Monday. "Triptych, 1976," described by the auction house as "a masterwork of the first order"...
London's blockbuster week of art auctions set to defy financial gloom
- 2008-02-03
LONDON AFP — A Francis Bacon tryptich and works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne are going under the hammer in London this week in auctions set to send sales records tumbling. Auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's are rubbing their hands with anticipation ahead of a week...
Noortman art collection sold at auction for 6.1 million euros
- 2007-12-18
THE HAGUE AFP — The collection of a celebrated Dutch art dealer went for 6.1 million euros (8.8 million dollars) at auction in Amsterdam, Sotheby's announced Tuesday -- double their original estimate. "The paintings, furniture and other fine pieces... attracted a lot of international attention," Sotheby's said, after a...
Magna Carta sold for 21.3 million at New York auction
- 2007-12-18
NEW YORK, AFP — One of only 17 existing copies of the Magna Carta, the iconic 800-year-old English royal manuscript setting out the rights of man, sold at auction at Sotheby's Tuesday for 21.3 million dollars. Arguably the most important document ever to be auctioned, the vellum manuscript was...
Copy of Magna Carta set for auction in New York
- 2007-12-17
NEW YORK AFP — Arguably the most important document ever to be auctioned goes on sale Tuesday when a copy of the Magna Carta, an 800-year-old English royal manuscript, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York. The royal charter, dated 1297 and bearing the wax seal of...
Magna Carta to go under hammer in New York
- 2007-12-17
NEW YORK AFP — Arguably the most important document ever to be auctioned goes on sale Tuesday when the Magna Carta, an 800-year-old English royal manuscript, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York. The royal charter, dated 1297 and bearing the wax seal of King Edward I,...
Mesopotamian sculpture sells for record 57 million dollars
- 2007-12-05
NEW YORK AFP — A tiny and extremely rare 5,000-year-old white limestone sculpture from ancient Mesopotamia sold for 57.2 million dollars in New York on Wednesday, smashing records for both sculpture and antiquities. The carved Guennol Lioness, measuring just over eight centimeters (3 1/4 inches) tall, was described by...
Painting found in trash sells for 1 mln dlrs
- 2007-11-20
NEW YORK AFP — A painting found in a pile of trash on a New York street sold at Sotheby's auction house late Tuesday for a million dollars, nearly 20 years after it was stolen from a warehouse in Texas. "Tres personajes" ("Three People"), a 1970 work by Rufino...
Strong contemporary art sales at Christie's
- 2007-11-14
NEW YORK AFP — A contemporary art auction at Christie's concluded successfully late Tuesday with all 67 listed works sold and record prices reached for some artists, despite worries that sales would be hurt by the slipping US economy and plunging bourses. Total sales ran 325 million dollars --...
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