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The 10 Biggest Art Sales from NYC’s Annual November Auctions
A solid November sales season was a success despite headwinds.
The evening sale of work from the estate of Emily Fisher Landau at Sotheby’s in New York.
Source: Sotheby’s
There are a few ways to interpret the news that the annual November New York auctions sold more than $2 billion worth of art in the last two weeks.
The first is to admire the sheer amount of money that changed hands: About $175 million at Phillips, $864 million at Christie’s and a bit more than $1 billion at Sotheby’s—a total helped significantly by the $139 million sale of a single Picasso painting.