On 3 November 2008 a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby ’ s in New York City for just over $ 60 million U. S. ( far surpassing his previous record of $ 17 million set in 2000 ).

Dora Maar au Chat sold for US $ 95. 2 million at Sotheby ’ s on 3 May 2006.

After Funt was robbed by his accountant ( who subsequently committed suicide ), he was forced to sell his collection at Sotheby ’ s in London in November 1973.

Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties sold for $ 15. 4 million at a 2006 Sotheby ’ s auction.

On 7 July 2010, Turner's final painting of Rome, Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino, from 1839, was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum at a Sotheby ’ s auction in London for $ 44. 9 million.

In 2001, Ronald Lauder paid $ 22. 5 million, a record for the artist, at Sotheby ’ s New York for Beckmann ’ s Self-Portrait with Horn ( 1938 ), and displayed it at the Neue Galerie in New York.

* Alma-Tadema ( Catalogue of the Funt Collection ) compiled by Russell Ash, Sotheby ’ s Belgravia, 1973

Sold again at Sotheby ’ s and acquired by the British Library in 1975, the autograph is, as its first editor P. J. Croft pointed out, " the largest body of verse to have survived from the Elizabethan period in a text entirely set down by the poet himself ".

Sotheby ’ s view of the abbey was gothic ; he peoples the ruins with spectral processions and ghostly Cistercians.

In comparison, the highest price for a sculpture from her New York years is £ 72, 500 ($ 147, 687 ), fetched by the 1965 wool, pasta, paint and hanger assemblage Golden Macaroni Jacket at Sotheby ’ s London in October 2007.

A 2006 acrylic on fiberglass-reinforced plastic pumpkin earned $ 264, 000, the top price for one of her sculptures, also at Sotheby ’ s in 2007

The current record auction price for a Serra sculpture was paid at Sotheby ’ s in 2008, where 12-4-8, a 1983 work consisting of three steel plates, sold for $ 1. 65 million.

In September 2001, Vettriano donated a painting, Beautiful Dreamer to a charity auction, which was held at Sotheby ’ s in aid of Help the Hospices.

Sotheby ’ s is the world ’ s fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation, with 90 locations in 40 countries.

Sotheby ’ s was established on March 11, 1744 in London.

In June 2006, Sotheby ’ s Holdings, Inc. reincorporated in the State of Delaware and was renamed Sotheby ’ s.

After Baker ’ s death in 1778, his estate was divided between Leigh and John Sotheby.

When the last member of the Sotheby family died in 1861, John Wilkinson, Sotheby ’ s Senior Accountant, became the company ’ s new CEO.

Sotheby ’ s has eleven service categories that cover most facets of the art market.

His work has been shown in and commissioned by international galleries, including the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, the Flower East Gallery in London, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Hayward Gallery, Bonhams, the National Portrait Gallery, Sotheby in London, the Royal Academy of Arts, and Somerset House.

The 30 bottle lot of Dom Pérignon Œnothèque Rosé bottles and magnums from 1966, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1988 and 1990 achieved HK $ 1, 331, 000 / US $ 170, 641 which set the world auction record for a single lot of champagne and is the first HK $ 1 million lot of wine Sotheby ’ s has sold in Hong Kong.

Munby worked in the antiquarian book trade with Bernard Quaritch, Limited ( 1935 – 37 ) and Sotheby & Company ( 1937 – 39, 1945 – 47 ).

As of 2011, Sotheby ’ s is present in over 90 locations in 40 countries with ten salesrooms.

In 2012, the company signed a 10-year joint-venture agreement to form Sotheby ’ s ( Beijing ) Auction Co. Ltd., the first international auction house in China ; under the agreement, it invested $ 1. 2 million to take an 80 percent stake in the venture with state-owned Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group.

Sotheby ’ s also created the BIDnow service, which allows bidders to bid real-time online while watching the broadcasted auctions, with the exception of Wine auctions.

Sotheby ’ s organizes the delivery of the lot in private with the buyer.

Once registration is approved, there are four ways buyers can bid at Sotheby ’ s: buyers can choose to bid in person at Sotheby ’ s auction rooms, place bids online in real time through BIDnow or LiveBid, register to Telephone Bid with a representative from Sotheby ’ s and submit an Absentee Bid online.

Sotheby ’ s links sellers with prospective buyers in private if sellers do not want a public auction.

Sotheby ’ s Museum Services works with museums through providing assistance in item valuations, deaccessions & sales, tailored acquisition opportunities and cultivation and development opportunities.

Sotheby ’ s Private Sales works with clients with confidentiality and tailors the buying and selling process in a private setting.

Noland had told Sotheby ’ s there were problems with the condition of her painting Cowboys Milking ( 1990 ), estimated to sell for between $ 260, 000 and $ 350, 000.

In 1874 several volumes with his original drawings of reptiles were auctioned by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge.

Sotheby ’ s planned to auction off the flower watercolors one-by-one, but Arader created one of his sydicates and, in a remarkable coup, purchased the whole group with a single, unchallenged bid of five million dollars.

In the following year, a group of investors ( such as American millionaire Alfred Taubman ) purchased and privatized Sotheby ’ s.

While traditional lenders such as banks provide loans at a lower cost to borrowers, Sotheby ’ s said in its 2011 annual report, few will accept works of art as the sole collateral.

London: printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby, W. J.

His British numismatic collection was sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge in London over five days from 27-31 March 1922.

* John Latham, Index Ornithologicus, Sive Systema Ornithologiae: Complectens Avium Divisionem In Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Ipsarumque Varietates: Adjectis Synonymis, Locis, Dexdriptionibus, & c, Volume 2, Publisher Leigh Et Sotheby, 1790.

Sotheby ’ s Tax & Heritage assists fiscal and legal aspects of items handled by Sotheby ’ s in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Sotheby ’ s Trusts & Estates service assists fiduciaries, executors and beneficiaries in the United States for valuation and disposition of personal property assets, estate tax, family division, insurance loans, collateral loans and consignment management.

During the early 1930s, using money from the Lloyds, " Hall traveled to France and England, where he acquired his most extensive collection of rare books and manuscripts in alchemy and esoteric fields from London auctioneer, Sotheby & Company.