MONEYWEB app instead? What a $32m dinosaur can tell us about this yearâs art auctions Although the top of the auction market is never a great indicator of how the art market is doing. By James Tarmy, Bloomberg 20 Dec 2020 00:38 A Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur fossil know as Stan is displayed in a gallery at Christie's auction house in New York on September 17, 2020. Image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images During a lovely spring week in May 2019, in what now feels like the halcyon days of pre-Covid life, seven paintings and three sculptures sold for a brisk $605 million. Flash forward to this year, when it took 12 months and a 67-million-year-old dinosaur to amass top 10 results that still only managed to total $408 million.