Sotheby's
Fine arts, rare objects | |
Founded | 11 March 1744 | in London, England
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Founder | Samuel Baker |
Headquarters | 1334 York Avenue[1], New York City , U.S. |
Number of locations | 80 locations in 40 countries (as of 2021)[2] |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Charles F. Stewart (CEO) |
Services | Auctions, financial services |
Owner | Patrick Drahi |
Subsidiaries | Sotheby's Institute of Art, Sotheby's International Realty, RM Sotheby's |
Website | www |
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Sotheby's was established on 11 March 1744 in London by Samuel Baker, a bookseller.[5] In 1767 the firm became Baker & Leigh, after George Leigh became a partner, and was renamed to Leigh and Sotheby in 1778 after Baker's death when Leigh's nephew, John Sotheby, inherited Leigh's share. Other former names include: Leigh, Sotheby and Wilkinson;[6] Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge (1864–1924); Sotheby and Company (1924–83);[7] Mssrs Sotheby; Sotheby & Wilkinson; Sotheby Mak van Waay; and Sotheby's & Co.[6]
The American holding company was initially incorporated in August 1983 in Michigan as Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. In June 2006, it was reincorporated in the State of Delaware and was renamed Sotheby's.[8] In June 2019, Sotheby's was acquired by French-Israeli businessman Patrick Drahi at a 61% market premium.[9][10]
Sotheby's Institute of Art (an educational facility), Sotheby's International Realty (real estate dealers), and RM Sotheby's (classic car dealers) are subsidiaries or partner organisations.[11]
History
Beginnings (18th & 19th century)
Sotheby's was established on 11 March 1744 in London by Samuel Baker, a bookseller. In 1767 the firm became Baker & Leigh,
After Baker's death in 1778, the business was left to Leigh and his nephew John Sotheby,[6] where it became a prominent book auction house and was renamed Leigh and Sotheby.[13]
George Leigh died in 1816, but not before recruiting
20th century
The business did not seek to auction
In 1964, Sotheby's purchased Parke-Bernet, the largest auctioneer of fine art in the United States at the time.[7] In the following year, Sotheby's moved to 980 Madison Avenue, New York.[19] With the international fine art auction industry growing, Sotheby's opened offices in Paris[20] and Los Angeles in 1967,[21] and became the first auction house to operate in Hong Kong in 1973,[22] and Moscow in 1988.[23]
As well as numerous high-profile real-life auctions being held at Sotheby's, the firm's auctioneers have also been used in various films, including the 1983
With private transactions constituting an essential and increasingly profitable business segment, through the years Sotheby's has bought art galleries and helped dealers finance purchases. It has also gone into partnership with dealers on private sales.
In 1996, Sotheby's acquired Andre Emmerich Gallery to operate a division called Emmerich/Sotheby's,[27] As a consequence, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the main beneficiary of the artists' estates, as well as the estates of Morris Louis and Milton Avery announced that they would not renew their Emmerich contracts.[28] That decision came right after it was disclosed that Sotheby's had decided to close Emmerich's prime space at 41 East 57th Street, and that its artists would be handled out of Deitch Projects.[29] Sotheby's subsequently closed Andre Emmerich in 1998.
In 1997, Sotheby's purchased a 50% interest in
In 2006, Sotheby's acquired a Dutch dealership, Noortman Master Paintings, from its owner, Robert Noortman, for $82.5 million ($56.5 million worth of Sotheby's stock and assumption of more than $26 million in gallery debt, including $11.7 million owed to the auction house).[30][33] Sotheby's and Noortman had collaborated before in 1995, when the sales of Dutch plastic millionaire Joost Ritman were divided between the two companies.[34] Already in 1990, Sotheby's New York had successfully lobbied for a zoning change permitting the construction of a 27-story residential tower above the five-story headquarters; this expansion was never realised. Instead, Sotheby's throughout the 1990s expressed interest in sites that ranged from the old Alexander's building on East 59th Street to the New York Coliseum site on Columbus Circle, and was even considering moving into the old B. Altman Building on Fifth Avenue.[35]
21st century
The company eventually bought its York Avenue building for $11 million in 2000 and completed a $140 million expansion and renovation in 2001,[36] adding six floors and 240,000 square feet. The renovation added the capability to store works on the same premises as the specialist departments, galleries, and auction spaces. Sotheby's New York's offices also house Sotheby's Wine[37] and the former Bid (an American contemporary restaurant and later bistro), which was closed due to poor attendance.[38] The company sold the building in 2002 for $175 million.[36] In May 2007, Sotheby's opened an office in Moscow in response to rapidly growing interest among Russian buyers in the international art market and held sales in Qatar in 2009.[39]
As many industries took a blow from the economic crisis of 2008, the art market also saw a contraction. In international figures, art prices fell by 7.5% in Q1 of 2008 in comparison to the previous quarter. In September and October 2008, major auction houses saw a sharp decline in sales: artprice.com, the world leader in art market information, coined the term "Black October". Sotheby's bought-in rate was 27%, Christie's was 45% and Phillips de Pury's was 46%. However, the total values of global and United States Fine Art auction sales were US$8.3 billion and US$2.9 billion, respectively.
In 2011, Noortman's Amsterdam space was closed and the gallery moved to London.[42][43] Two years later, Sotheby's closed Noortmans, after having written down $8.3 million of inventory and started selling off lower-valued works of art through other auction houses.[42] As of 2021[update], Sotheby's is present in over 40 countries, with 80 locations.[2] 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.[44]
As of 2012, the firm had an annual revenue of approximately US$831.8 million[45] and offices on Manhattan's York Avenue and London's New Bond Street.[citation needed]
Sotheby's shares a rivalry with Christie's for the position of the world's pre-eminent fine art auctioneer, a title of much
In the meantime, income from classic auctioneering has fallen, as Sotheby's reported a decrease of 42% in net income in the first half of 2012.[47]
In February 2015 Sotheby's acquired a 25% stake in classic and vintage automobile auctioneer
In March 2015, Tad Smith, former president and chief executive of New York's Madison Square Garden,[49] succeeded William F. Ruprecht as CEO of Sotheby's.[50] Smith had no experience in the auction industry but had overseen a doubling of profits during his time at Madison Square Garden.[51] In 2015, the auction house's longest-serving auctioneer, David Redden, and vice-chairman retired.[52]
In 2016, the company spent $50 million on Art Agency Partners, run by Amy Cappellazzo, Allan Schwartzman and Adam Chinn. The price was shared among the trio, as well as $35 million performance-related bonus.[53] The five-year contract expired in 2021.[54]
In July 2016, Chinese insurance company
On 25 January 2018, Sotheby's acquired the AI company Thread Genius for an undisclosed amount.[56]
In February 2019, Sotheby's announced a redesign and expansion of its New York headquarters on the Upper East Side that is being led by the designer Shohei Shigematsu of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). The exhibition space there will grow to over 90,000 square feet from 67,000, and the project will include the addition of several new galleries.[57] The company also launched a new online bidding platform on its website.[58]
In June 2019, Sotheby's was acquired by French-Israeli businessman Patrick Drahi at a 61% market premium.[9][10] In October 2019, he brought in Charles F. Stewart as Sotheby's new CEO, and former CEO Tad Smith transitioned to an advisory role.[59] Drahi instituted a number of cost-cutting measures, including senior executive layoffs in 2019;[60] job cuts, salary cuts, and a move to online auctions during the 2020 pandemic;[61] and announcing an end to Sotheby's employee pension plan in 2022.[62]
In 2020, Sotheby's overtook Christie's as the world's top auction house for the first time since 2011, with over $5 billion in aggregate sales compared to its rival's $4.4 billion.[54]
As of late 2021, Drahi's son, Nathan Drahi, was the managing director of Sotheby's Asia.[63]
In June 2023, Sotheby's agreed to purchase 945 Madison Avenue, a former museum building designed by Marcel Breuer, to house the company's headquarters, including its galleries, exhibition space, and auction room. The company plans to open its new space in 2025.[64]
History of public and private ownership
Sotheby's became a UK public company in 1977.[65] In 1980, after a drop in sales,[66] Sotheby's relocated its North American headquarters from Madison Avenue to a former cigar factory[36] at 1334 York Avenue, New York. In 1982, the auction house closed its Madison Avenue galleries at East 76th Street, and its Los Angeles galleries were sold and West Coast auctions moved to New York.[67]
In 1983, a group of investors including American millionaire Alfred Taubman purchased and privatized Sotheby's.[68] Sotheby's was initially incorporated as Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. in Michigan in August 1983.[8]
In 1988, Taubman took Sotheby's public and listed the company's shares on the New York Stock Exchange, making Sotheby's the oldest publicly traded company on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "BID".[69] In June 2006, Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. reincorporated in the State of Delaware and was renamed Sotheby's shortly after.[70][8]
In 2019 Sotheby's was acquired by Patrick Drahi for $3.7 billion, becoming again a private company and no longer trading on the New York Stock Exchange.[71]
Auction process
Sotheby's auctions are usually held during the day. The majority are free and open to the public, with the exception of occasional evening auctions, which require tickets. Attendees have no obligation to bid.[72]
Bidding finishes when only one bidder remains willing to purchase the lot at the bidder's declared price. The auctioneer "knocks down" the lot, declaring it sold to the winning bidder. The winning bid for a lot is also called the
Buying
Buyers can find out what is for sale at Sotheby's by browsing e-catalogues, visiting pre-sale exhibitions, purchasing print catalogues and registering for e-mail alerts.[73] Buyers can register to bid in person at Sotheby's offices, or online. Sotheby's requires that prospective buyers provide government-issued proof of identity and sometimes a bank reference. There are four ways buyers can bid: in person at the auction rooms, by telephone, bid live online or make an absentee bid online. When a bid is successful, Sotheby's calculates and sums the hammer price, the buyer's premium and taxes.
Selling
Sellers are required to submit an Auction Estimate Form, providing thorough information and a photograph of the item. Once accepted for auction, the seller and Sotheby's sign a contract, which sets out the reserve price and the seller's commission.[74] If bidding on a seller's lot does not reach the reserve price, the item is not sold.
Service categories
As of April 2021[update], Sotheby's listed the following services:[75]
- Advisory
- Fiduciary client group
- Global partnerships
- Financial services/lending
- Fine art storage
- Post sale services
- Private sales
- Restitution
- Scientific research
- Tax, heritage and UK museums
- Valuations
- Wine advisory services
- Private sales
Sotheby's links sellers with prospective buyers in private if sellers do not want a
- Financial services
Established in 1988, Sotheby's Financial Services offers loans for consigned property and loans against the value of client's items through customized terms.[80] The auction house also makes term loans, for a defined period of time, on works that clients aren't planning to sell, in part to "establish or enhance mutually beneficial relationships with borrowers" that can lead to future consignments.[81] 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.[81]
- Picture library
Sotheby's Picture Library contained images in a variety of formats available for licensing,[82] and was one of the image suppliers to various databases such as the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA).[83][84] However, only the image archive mentioned on the Sotheby's website as of April 2021[update] is an out-of-date reference to the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive,[85] which Cecil Beaton sold to Sotheby's in 1977.[86]
- Wine
In October 2019, Sotheby's launched Sotheby's Own Label Collection, a line of a dozen wines. The project took two years to complete, and is based on Sotheby's best-selling wines, both those represented in-store and on its e-commerce platform. Additionally, the collection reflects some of the long-standing relationships Sotheby's has with producers around the world.[87] The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia has been published in several editions since 1988, written by Tom Stevenson.
- Other
Sotheby's has produced a bimonthly online magazine since November–December 2018, Sotheby's Magazine.[88]
Partners and subsidiaries
Sotheby's Institute of Art
In 1969, Sotheby's founded Sotheby's Institute of Art in London.[89] The Institute now offers full-time accredited master's degrees as well as a range of online and other courses.[90]
Sotheby's International Realty
Sotheby's International Realty is a luxury real estate brand founded in 1976 by Sotheby's. It operates as a franchise.
RM Sotheby's
RM Sotheby's deals in classic cars, headquartered in Canada with offices across the US and Europe. Formerly RM Auctions, the company has been part-owned by Sotheby's since 2015.
Sotheby's Prize
The Sotheby's Prize, launched in 2017, is a $250,000 annual award given to museums that exhibit what are vaguely described as "groundbreaking shows".
Notable sales
Auctioned artwork
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Sotheby's has set, then later reset, a number of world records for auctioned works of art. The following monetary values are given in United States dollars.
- On 22 May 2002, Norman Rockwell's painting of Rosie the Riveter was sold for $4.96 million.
- On 3 May 2006, Sotheby's auctioned Pablo Picasso's Dora Maar au Chat for $95 million, becoming the second-most-expensive artwork ever sold at auction at that time.
- On 7 June 2007, a Roman-era bronze sculpture of Artemis and the Stag was sold at Sotheby's for $28.6 million, setting the new record as the most expensive sculpture as well as work from antiquity ever sold at auction at that time.
- Sotheby's holds the world record for most expensive piece of contemporary art ever sold at auction, with Mark Rothko's 1950 White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), grossing $72.8 million in May 2007.
- Sotheby's set a new world record, at that time, for the most expensive auctioned work by a living artist, bringing in $17 million at a November 1986 auction of Out the Window by Jasper Johns, the first auction over $10 million in this category.
- While Sotheby's and Christie's surpassed each other over time, Sotheby's reclaimed the record with the first auction over $20 million in this category, Jeff Koons' Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold), which grossed $23.6 million in a November 2007 sale.
- Sotheby's retook this record, at that time, on 12 October 2012, with the first auction over $30 million in this category, when a 1994 painting from the Abstraktes Bilder series by Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (809–4), was sold for $34 million.
- On 6 December 2007, Sotheby's auctioned the Guennol Lioness, a 31⁄4-inch limestone lion from ancient Mesopotamia. It is thought to be at least 5,000 years old. It was sold for $57 million, fetching the highest price ever paid for at an auction for a sculpture.[93]
- On 15 December 2007, Sotheby's auctioned one of only seven copies of The Children's Voice charity.[94]
- On 19 December 2007, Sotheby's auctioned a 710-year-old copy of Magna Carta, the last remaining copy in private hands out of the 17 that are known to exist. The copy sold for $21.3 million.[95]
- On 3 February 2010, the sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sold for $103.7 million at a London auction, at that time setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.[96]
- On 2 May 2012, a version of the painting The Scream was sold for $119.9 million.
- On 11 November 2014, the Geneva.[97]
- On 2 June 2016, Pablo Picasso's Femme Assise sold for $63.7 million at Sotheby's in London, making it the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.[98]
- On 10 July 2018, E. H. Shepard's original 1926 illustrated map of the Hundred Acre Wood, which features in the opening pages of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, sold for £430,000 ($600,000) in London, setting a record for a book illustration.[99]
- On 5 October 2018, Banksy's "Girl with a Balloon" began to 'shred' itself shortly after hammering down at the artist's auction record. The work was later sold again with the new title "Love is in the Bin" for £18.5 million, an artist's record for Banksy after the previous record of £16.5 million set in March that year.[100]
- On 14 May 2019, Claude Monet's Meules was sold for over $110 million.[101]
- On 25 October 2021, Sotheby's auctioned 11 Picasso's previously belonging to Steve Wynn for $109 million in a pop-up salesroom in Las Vegas.[102]
- On 6 September 2023, Freddie Mercury's Yamaha baby grand piano, which he used to compose "Bohemian Rhapsody" among other Queen songs, sold for £1.7 million ($2.1 million), which Sotheby's state is a record for a composer's piano.[103] The month-long exhibition in London, Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own, saw almost 1,500 items of Mercury's sold across six auctions, taking in a total £39.9 million ($50.4 million) and surpassing a previous mark set by David Bowie.[104][105]
Sneaker sales
In recent years, Sotheby's has been selling sneakers, both vintage designs in a "buy-now" sneaker shop,[106] and high-value pairs, some worn by famous people, by auction. Sneaker auctions have brought in large numbers new to Sotheby's, from as young as 19 years old and across the world.[107] Notable auction record-breaking sales include:
- July 2019, Nike 1972 Nike Waffle Racing Flat "Moon Shoe", US$437,500[107][108]
- 17 May 2020, Michael Jordan's autographed Nike "Air Jordan 1"s from 1985 sold for US$560,000[107][108][109]
- April 2021, Nike Air Yeezy 1 worn by
Jewelry
On 9 July 2021, Sotheby's sold a 101.38-carat diamond for $12.3 million in cryptocurrency. The sale became the most expensive physical object ever publicly offered for purchase with cryptocurrency at the time.[112]
Controversies
Illegal antiquities
1990s scandal
In 1991 & 1997, an edition of ITV's
In India, Ghiya was eventually arrested in 2003, only convicted in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison; however, in 2014 an
Cambodian statue (2012)
In 2012, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved to seize a 10th-century Cambodian sandstone statue from Sotheby's,[119] alleging in a civil complaint before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York that the company had put the work up for auction "despite knowing that it had been stolen from a temple"[120] in Koh Ker.[121]
Price-fixing scandal (2000)
In February 2000,
Growing out of the four-year criminal antitrust investigation by the United States Department of Justice, some 130,000 buyers and sellers filed class-action lawsuit, arguing they were cheated in the price-fixing conspiracy by Sotheby's and Christie's.[127] In 2001, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York gave final approval to a US$512 million agreement.[128] The structure of the settlement was said to have helped stave off insolvency for both companies, especially the publicly held Sotheby's.[129][130]
At the time of the scandal, 59 percent of the company's Class A shares were owned by Baron Funds.[131]
Auction error (2011)
On 10 March 2011, Sotheby's sold a pair of sconces incorrectly attributed to Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann.[132]
Artists' authorship rights (2012)
In 2012, art dealer Marc Jancou filed suit in the
Activist investor dispute (2013–2014)
From October 2013 to May 2014, Sotheby's was the target of activist investor
Industrial dispute (2015)
Sotheby's London auction house had outsourced its cleaning and other support services to Contract Cleaning and Maintenance (London) Limited (CCML). In early 2015, the UVW union initiated a formal trade dispute over low pay, insufficient sick pay, and issues summarised in an Early Day Motion signed by 24 Members of Parliament, highlighting:[144]
the unwarranted suspension of a porter following a grievance he made about poor treatment, the refusal to stop using certain chemicals which leave cleaners with breathing difficulties, chest pains and rashes, the unwarranted deduction of wages and working hours, overworking and shouting at porters and cleaners, reprimanding a porter for using the toilet outside his official break time, threatening a cleaner with suspension for not being clean shaven
After CCML conceded the majority of UVW's demands, Sotheby's decided to contract all support services to a new company, Servest. This backfired when UVW staged a noisy, sit-down protest outside the Sotheby's entrance[145] while clients arrived for a record-breaking summer night of contemporary art auctions, including lots by Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon.[146] Four workers were suspended and investigated for their involvement in the protest,[147] which led to another Early Day Motion signed by 42 MPs, condemning:[148]
that Sotheby's and Servest consider peaceful protest to be an act of misconduct; further condemns Sotheby's decision to ban from the site cleaners and porters who took part in a lawful, peaceful protest to call for a real Living Wage, contractual sick pay and an end to trade union victimisation
With only two of the four workers reinstated, another UVW protest disrupted a Sotheby's classic car auction in London's Battersea.[149] In February 2016 Sotheby's and Servest reached an agreement to pay all outsourced workers the London Living Wage and improved sick pay.[150]
Controversies involving Yves Bouvier (2016–2023)
In 2016, three New York art traders – Warren Adelson, president of Adelson Galleries, as well as New York-based art dealers Alexander Parish and Robert Simon – planned to sue Sotheby's for alleged fraud over the resale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which they sold through Sotheby's in 2013 for $80 million.[151][152] After learning that the buyer of the painting, Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier, sold it on to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $127.5 million, the traders felt deceived by the auction house as to the painting's true value.[151] According to court papers, the traders inquired whether Sotheby's knew the artwork could have been sold for more, and whether they were "misled into selling the work for a smaller amount by Sotheby's because Bouvier is an esteemed client."[153][154] Sotheby's filed a preemptive lawsuit stating it had complied with all applicable rules and regulations, and the dispute between the auction house and the art dealers was settled quietly out of court.[155][156]
In 2018, in a connected case, Rybolovlev sued Sotheby's for $380 million in damages for this alleged collusion with Bouvier, claiming the company "materially assisted the largest art fraud in history"[157] whereby Sotheby's vice chairman of private sales worldwide provided assessments forwarded to Rybolovlev which overinflated the valuations of artworks while at the same time being aware of the much lower prices Bouvier paid for them privately through Sotheby's.[158] Rybolovlev alleged that Yves Bouvier defrauded him out of $1 billion through this practice, over several years.[159] In the Rybolovlev legal proceedings, in 2019 New York courts ordered Sotheby's to produce documents to be used in foreign criminal proceedings regarding the Bouvier Affair in Switzerland and Monaco.[160]
In March 2023, a New York judge ruled that Sotheby's must face trial on fraud charges regarding four of the 15 artworks that Rybolovlev sued Sotheby's over: Salvator Mundi by da Vinci, Le Domaine d’Arnheim by
See also
- Love is in the Bin, Banksy painting sold by Sotheby's in 2018 and then again in 2021
- Peter Wilson (auctioneer), former chairman
- The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia
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Further reading
- "History of Sotheby's Holdings, Inc". FundingUniverse.
Source: International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 29. St. James Press, 1999.
Includes bibliography. - Lacey, Robert (1998). Sotheby's: Bidding For Class. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 0-316-51139-0.
- Learmount, Brian (1985). A history of the auction. Barnard & Learmont. ISBN 0-9510240-0-0.
- Mason, Christopher (2004). The Art of the Steal. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-15093-5.
- "Sotheby's". Encyclopedia.com.
- ISBN 978-0-679-41403-2.