"The next episode in new Design series features a fantastic and unique collection from a Venetian palace redesigned by Pucci de Rossi. Sotheby’s specialist Elie Massaoutis describes it as theatrical and like being in a cartoon, and explains what it takes to become a great design collector. Creations by Pucci de Rossi coexist with unique pieces of Andre Dubreuil, and contemporary art by Alain Jacquet and Robert Combas. The sale of the collection forms part of our Design sale in Paris on 17 May."
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"Get a unique glimpse inside the studio of visionary artist and designer Ross Lovegrove in the latest episode of our new Design series. Join Sotheby’s specialist Adam Trunoske as he finds out what makes ‘Captain Organic’ tick, who his influences are, how design can change your psyche and what’s in the private collection of this pioneering designer. Ross Lovegrove’s Gingko Table (2007) features in Sotheby’s Design sale in Paris on 17 May."
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"In one of the most riveting auction battles in history, a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat brought $110.5 million – the record for an American artist. Watch as auctioneer Oliver Barker fields bids between two collectors determined to take home the monumental masterpiece, the star of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction."
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"A vision of exquisite beauty and devastating allure, Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Nude Sunbathing’ embodies the essence of confident female sensuality. The work is one of Lichtenstein’s greatest contributions to art history’s most celebrated subject: the female nude. Executed in 1995, 'Nude Sunbathing' is a major highlight of Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening sale on 16 May in New York."
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"Uptown and downtown merge as Sotheby’s brings highlights from the June 8 Master Paintings sale in New York to Fat Free Art, a street-art gallery on the Lower East Side. Sotheby’s has invited an internationally group of street artists to imagine highlights from the sale in their own mediums. Watch the video to discover their interpretations of the masters and explore the social commentary that rings true even when separated by centuries."
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"Featuring exceptionally rare blue and white porcelain vases, bowls and more, the fourteen lots being offered on 14 March in Ming: The Intervention of Imperial Taste illustrate the power and diplomacy of the ancient court. Watch the video to preview the extraordinary sale, a highlight of Sotheby's Asia Week sales in New York, and be sure to visit our New York galleries from 9–13 March to admire these ambitious designs in person."
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"Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 16 May features two paintings by pioneering artist Claude Monet. Marking two distinct moments within Monet’s trajectory, the works ‘Vétheuil’ and ‘Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas.’ Watch the video to see how his evolving technique influenced his work."
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"With its bright, primary colors and varied textures this example of Picasso's ‘Tête d’homme’ lives up to its regal history. Created for the artist’s groundbreaking exhibition at the Palais des Papes in Avignon, this large scale canvas commands immediate attention as a highlight of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening sale on 18 May in New York. Watch the video to learn more about the techniques that produced this striking composition."
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"Watch highlights of the bidding battles that broke the auction record for Wassily Kandinsky, not once, but twice, in Sotheby’s June 2017 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London. The auction record was broken first by a major Expressionist painting, Murnau – Landschaft mit grünem Haus from 1909, which sold for £21 million / $26.4 million. That record was broken just six lots later by powerful abstract masterpiece Bild mit weissen Linien from 1913, which sold for £33 million / $41.6 million."
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"When this painting by Jan Sanders Van Hemessen arrived at Sotheby’s, specialists had trouble identifying the strangely dressed sitter. In this episode of The Costumist, Jonquil O’Reilly introduces court performer Elizabet and discusses her unusual garments and jewellery – clues that led to the discovery of her identity in advance of Sotheby’s Old Masters sale in London on 5 July 2017."
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