The price of being female

May 20, 2012
The price of being female

MUCH fanfare greeted the $388m made by Christie’s post-war and contemporary evening sale in New York earlier this month—its highest total ever. Few seemed to notice that the auction was unprecedented in another way: it had ten lots by eight women artists, amounting to a male-to-female ratio of five-to-one. (Sotheby’s evening sale offered a...
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The price of being female

May 20, 2012
The price of being female

MUCH fanfare greeted the $388m made by Christie’s post-war and contemporary evening sale in New York earlier this month—its highest total ever. Few seemed to notice that the auction was unprecedented in another way: it had ten lots by eight women artists, amounting to...
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The price of being female

May 20, 2012
The price of being female

MUCH fanfare greeted the $388m made by Christie’s post-war and contemporary evening sale in New York earlier this month—its highest total ever. Few seemed to notice that the auction was unprecedented in another way: it had ten lots by eight women artists, amounting to...
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CELEBRITIES IN THE NEWS

May 19, 2012

Van Cliburn treasures auctioned at over $4.3m NEW YORK (AP) — Art, jewelry and furnishings collected by the pianist Van Cliburn has fetched over $4.3 million at an auction...
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Sotheby’s To Auction Notable Latin American Artwork

May 19, 2012
Sotheby’s To Auction Notable Latin American Artwork

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Gunter Sachs art collection to be auctioned in UK

May 19, 2012

LONDON (AP) — A British auction house is selling artworks collected by Germany born photographer Gunter Sachs. Sotheby’s said Saturday that the collection features important pieces by artists such...
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