Sotheby’s Sale Draws Cohen as Wynn Buys $28 Million ‘Popeye’
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Sotheby’s had a hard act to follow.
On May 13, Christie’s sold a record $745 million worth of postwar and contemporary art in three hours in New York. The next evening, Sotheby’s tallied $364.4 million. Although it was Sotheby’s third-highest postwar-art sale in a decade, the result was half its rival’s haul.