Sotheby's - Finestre sull'Arte

In auction in New York the oldest known table with the Ten Commandments

In December, Sotheby's will auction at its New York headquarters a singular item: the oldest stone tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments. Dating from the late Byzantine period, this artifact is about 1,500 years old and is the only complete table...
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Unbelievable. Cattelan's banana up for auction for $1 million

$1 million for Cattelan's banana. Comedian, the celebrated banana taped to the wall, a 2019 work by Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, Italy, 1960) will indeed go to auction at Sotheby's, with an estimate of $1 to $1.5 million. It will be the highlight of the...
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Sotheby's, Botticelli's Vir Dolorum sold for $45.4 million

One year after the record sale of Sandro Botticelli's $92.2 million Portrait of a Young Man with Medallion, the same artist's Vir Dolorum went to auction at Sotheby 's today as expected. A few days ago the latter painting had provided a wonderful su...
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Robbie Williams collects Banksy: auctioning three of his works by the renowned street artist

Three works by Banksy that are part of the collection of one of the UK's most famous pop singers, Robbie Williams, will go up for auction at Sotheby 's in London on March 2, 2022. The star is in fact also an avid collector, an aspect that has remaine...
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Frida Kahlo's record-breaking first self-portrait sold at auction at Sotheby's

For the first time, a work by a Latin American artist has been sold at auction for a record sum: it is Diego y yo, a painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which was sold at Sotheby 's for the sum of nearly $35 million, $34,883,000 to be exact. Est...
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