Why is Sotheby’s cosying up to Abu Dhabi’s elite?
EXC: UAE-based HNW art patron Elie Khouri, the founder of Vivium – a single-family office in Dubai – on the…
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Dinosaurs for the ultra-wealthy: how billionaires are turning fossils into status symbols
As 100-million-year-old dinosaur fossils fetch ever-increasing sums at auction, collectors are vying to place the winning bid. But has anyone…
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Gustav Klimt painting fetches $236.4m, becoming second-highest auction sale in history
Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold for $236.4m at Sotheby’s, becoming the second most expensive artwork ever auctioned
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Why I’m selling a $20 million Rembrandt and giving the proceeds to charity
EXC: Billionaire art collector Thomas S. Kaplan on selling an Old Master drawing to raise funds for a wildlife charity…
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The glittering demise of art fraudster Inigo Philbrick
This entertaining tale of the downfall of a Mayfair art world grifter is replete with inside information
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