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Of all the schemes attributed to Yves Bouvier in court Wednesday, the most audacious involved Dmitry Rybolovlev’s acquisition of a Da Vinci painting.

Though her iconic “Black Sheep” sweater fetched over $1M last week, it's far from the only piece worn by the princess to eclipse auction estimates.

In 2019, Sotheby’s sold a work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, the master painter, that was left behind in Austria when a Jewish gallery owner fled

A rare "space diamond" was auctioned off, fetching more than $4 million. The buyer is paying for the auction via cryptocurrency.

Sotheby’s to Hold an All-Female Sale – Sotheby’s will mount an online sale of work by female artists, including Rachel Whiteread and Dorothea Tanning, from May 20 through 27. The 26-lot sale is expected to generate £1 million. The house’s Marina Ruiz Colomer articulated the (somewhat contradictory) rationale for the event as follows: “Female artists should not be pigeon-holed nor segregated, which is precisely why we are holding a sale that appears to be doing exactly that—in or...