Sotheby's specialists tell stories of discovery, restitution and scholarship, looking at some of the most defining moments in ...

A monumental charcoal drawing by Jenny Saville,has sold for £2,114,000, far exceeding its pre-sale estimate of ...

The value of works by female artists accounted for 30 percent of the sale's total, despite only accounting for 13.5 percent of the evening's works.

This 300-year-old violin could become the most expensive musical instrument A Stradivarius violin made in 1714, known as the Joachim-Ma, is expected to sell for up to $18 million at a Sotheby’s ...

A violin made by renowned Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari during his 18th century "Golden Period" is heading for auction next month with an estimate of up to a record $18 million.

Helena Newman has many strings to her bow, She is the Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and the Worldwide Head of Impressionist & Modern Art. She is one of only a handful of female auctioneers and ...

In November 2023, Femme à la montre (1932) sold for $139,363,500 (€126,730,895) at a Sotheby's auction in New York and is the second most expensive painting ever sold by legendary Spanish ...

After a tense face-off between two bidders on the phone with Nicholas Chow (Chairman, Asia) and Helena Newman (Chairman, Europe), the masterpiece went to a lady in the room for HK$272,905,000 (US ...

The bang of an auctioneer's hammer at Sotheby's London on Tuesday brought a 10-minute bidding battle to an end and set a new record for the most expensive work of art ever sold in Europe. Austrian ...

A 1918 masterpiece by Gustav Klimt that was on the artist’s easel at the time he died unexpectedly sold for £85.3 million (US$108.4 million) to a Hong Kong collector at Sotheby’s in London on ...

After a heated ten minutes steered by auctioneer Helena Newman, Sotheby’s chairman for Europe and worldwide head of Impressionist and Modern art, Hua dropped out of the race at £73.5m.