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Diaries of actor who inspired character of Withnail to be auctioned in London

Vivian MacKerrell – who really did drink lighter fluid – shared a house with Withnail and I director Bruce Robinson

The Guardian - UK

Rare Harry Potter book first bought for £1 could fetch thousands at auction

Proof copy mispells author JK Rowling’s name as ‘JA Rowling’

The Independent UK

Paula Rego ‘masterpiece’ may set record for artist at Sotheby’s auction

Meadow has top-end initial estimate of about £3m, as Rego’s work about gender and abortion finds new audiences

The Guardian - UK

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Rare bottles of champagne and wine worth up to $140,000 for sale at Sotheby’s first ever dedicated auction

The most expensive champagne is a 1966 Dom Pérignon

The Independent UK

‘He thought it was fun’: how Rubens painted over an old master to give it life

Hi-tech imaging reveals the artist tinkered with Herri met de Bles’s painting to improve the composition of figures

The Guardian - UK

Sports Memorabilia Appear to Have Arrived as Investing Class

The world's most prestigious auction house recently had a Sports Week in which it auctioned off sports collectibles.

Kiplinger

Oldest Privately Owned Book Sells For GBP3mn At UK Sale

The world's oldest book in a private collection, and one of the earliest books in existence, sold at auction in London on Tuesday for more than GBP3 million.

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Franz Kafka letter shows author’s anguished struggle with writer’s block

Letter to friend and publisher Albert Ehrenstein, to be auctioned in June, details struggle to write at time of tuberculosis diagnosis

The Guardian - UK

‘Virtually complete’ Stegosaurus fossil to be auctioned at Sotheby’s geek week

The 11ft and tall and 20ft long fossil, nicknamed Apex, could fetch up to $6m as it’s celebrated as ‘one of the best unearthed’

The Guardian - UK

There’s A Perfectly Good Reason Why Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle Didn’t Wear the Spencer Tiara on Their Respective Wedding Days

Their late mother-in-law, Lady Diana Spencer, famously—and beautifully—wore her family heirloom tiara when she married Prince Charles in 1981, and wore it again multiple times throughout her royal life.

Marie Claire

£161,000 for 20 days? Nick Candy bemoans One Hyde Park service charge

Billionaire developer jokes he in fact spends no time at penthouse with record-breaking £175m asking price

The Guardian - UK

Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach form part of Sotheby’s summer exhibition

Exhibition showing Britain as ‘melting pot’ for world renowned artists

The Independent UK

Why Sotheby's is bringing 12 masterpieces to London – from Bacon to Freud

Sotheby’s has a major exhibition opening in London tomorrow. The company’s deputy chairman, UK André Zlattinger on why the show is flying the flag for the capital

Evening Standard

Sotheby's summer show: creatives from Grayson Perry to Bella Freud on the art event celebrating London

To celebrate a new exhibition at Sotheby’s, art and design leaders pick their favourite works from a mix of masterpieces and reveal why they think London inspires so many artists

Evening Standard

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Rare cigars and at-home spas: Meet the man who can get billionaires whatever they want

Ever wondered who it is that fixes up billionaires with everything their hearts desire? Will Hosie meets Marcus O’Brien, who heads up a new division at UK Sotheby’s International Realty that can arrange anything, from the rarest cigar to London’s most expensive house

The Guardian - US

Painting by surrealist painter Leonora Carrington fetches $28m at auction

Late British painter’s Les Distractions de Dagobert, ‘the apotheosis of Carrington’s oeuvre’, was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch

The Guardian - UK

Leonora Carrington painting auctioned for £22.5m in record for UK-born female artist

Les Distractions de Dagobert was the surrealist’s ‘definitive masterpiece’, says Sotheby’s expert in New York

International Business Times

Monet Painting Fetches $35 Million At New York Auction

A Monet sold for nearly $35 million at auction Wednesday evening, Sotheby's said, marking a solid start to New York's spring art sales.

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The Dalmore and Zaha Hadid Architects’ whisky collaboration up for auction

The Dalmore 49 Year Old Luminary No.2 The Rare, a collaboration with Zaha Hadid Architects is to be auctioned at Sotheby’s

Evening Standard

Art gallery or home? Iconic minimalist house designed to display art for sale in Mayfair

The property on Hays Mews was commissioned by Doris Lockhart Saatchi in 1987 and later owned by art collector Ralph I. Goldenberg

Latin Times

Art world gavel-to-gavel: Spring auctions kick off in New York despite market setbacks, cyberattacks

With sales of $14.9 billion last year, the art market saw a 14 percent drop compared to 2022

International Business Times

New York Gears Up For Major Spring Auctions After Soft 2023

New York's major auction houses were preparing for the start of their all-important Spring sales on Monday even as Christie's came under a cyberattack that affected its website.

Evening Standard

Sotheby's UK Realty launches specialist family office division for billionaire clients

It has been founded by Marcus O’ Brien, best known for the sale of a £225 million mansion at 2-8a Rutland Gate in Knightsbridge

WEKU

Israel orders Rafah evacuations; Boeing plans to launch a spacecraft

Israel has ordered Palestinians to evacuate parts of Rafah after cease-fire talks failed. Boeing is set to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station tonight.

WEKU

The original 'Harry Potter' book cover art is expected to break records at auction

Sotheby's June 26 auction of Thomas Taylor's watercolor illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is estimated to sell for $400,000-$600,000.

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