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A major sale of American art soared past its high estimate at Sotheby's New York, showing a big appetite for homegrown craftsmanship.

In the latest episode of Monocle 24’s production for Sotheby’s, we learn about oil and gas pioneers Erving and Joyce Wolf, who were passionate collectors of…

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“Stephen was an extraordinary collector—he just lived and breathed the art from this period.” Those are the words Jodi Pollack, worldwide head of the 20th-century design department at Sotheby’s, uses when speaking by phone to AD PRO. But the specific man in question, who Pollack describes as being “beloved” throughout the industry, was not a world-famous scion or curatorial great. Instead, he was retired ophthalmologist named Dr. Stephen E. Kelly, who, later in his life, was able to...