https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/how-1-000-objects-were-assembled-for-auction-at-sothebys 2026-01-30T11:16:38-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/6d/16/843fd8474d058732340c1969b272/tavitian1920.jpg Inside The Tavitian Collection | How 1,000 Objects Were Assembled for Auction at Sotheby's The Aso O. Tavitian collection comprised nearly one thousand exceptional lots, featuring an extraordinary range of treasures—from English furniture and Old Master paintings to drawings, sculpture, silver, porcelain, and more, presented in the winter of 2025. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1xv9RNfnOOk?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Old Masters Week Auction Results Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/decoding-the-most-valuable-single-owner-american-whiskey-collection-ever-offered-at-auction 2026-01-15T12:32:40-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/03/a3/4c1bce414a9681cd1d9752b708ac/whiskey-thumbnail.png Decoding The Most Valuable Single-Owner American Whiskey Collection Ever Offered at Auction Later this month, Sotheby’s presents The Great American Whiskey Collection, its first-ever live, single-owner American whiskey auction and the most valuable of its kind ever to come to market. Taking place at the iconic Breuer Building on Madison Avenue, the sale brings together 360 bottles across 320 lots, estimated at $1.17–1.68 million. As part of Sotheby’s Visions of America series marking the nation’s 250th anniversary, the collection reflects a deep intersection of American craftsmanship, heritage, and collecting culture. https://www.youtube.com/embed/iKE_tdfDvGQ?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/350-years-untouched-inside-the-most-miraculous-cabinet-in-america 2026-01-15T12:32:05-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/27/2e/18c67c5a4155b43444afb2b15387/thumbnail-v1.png 350 Years Untouched: Inside the Most Miraculous Cabinet in America This newly discovered 17th‑century valuables cabinet stands as a monument to early Colonial American artistry. https://www.youtube.com/embed/bwFUy2jvm4c?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/doris-brynner-the-glamorous-life-behind-audrey-hepburns-best-friend 2026-01-15T10:28:56-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/11/8b/16e2a0184765ac9324438e4f04ff/dbrynner-clean.jpg Doris Brynner: The Glamorous Life Behind Audrey Hepburn’s Best Friend | Sotheby's Best friend of Audrey Hepburn, confidante of Elizabeth Taylor, and widow of legendary actor Yul Brynner, Doris Brynner lived an extraordinary life at the crossroads of Hollywood glamour and European elegance. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BUVOs3atQ1A?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Collectors Jewelry Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/from-binzagr-to-picasso-saudi-art-pioneers-meet-global-masters-at-sothebys-origins-ii 2026-01-16T14:32:24-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/0e/cf/cd4cba42405f9c9727b2dd2ce0a4/origins-clean.png From Binzagr to Picasso | Saudi Art Pioneers Meet Global Masters at Sotheby's Origins II Titled Origins II, this sale brings together Sotheby’s global offerings for new and seasoned collectors, presenting museum-worthy and historically important works that span regional pioneers and internationally celebrated masters. From Safeya Binzagr’s deeply researched reflections on daily life to Dia Aziz Dia’s poetic sensitivity to light and place, the selection reveals the foundations of modern artistic language shaped within the Kingdom. https://www.youtube.com/embed/NFMQtZDX-Pw?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Tickets Required Events Selling Exhibitions Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/held-kissed-and-hidden-for-500-years-the-most-intimate-antonello-da-messina-youll-ever-see 2026-01-21T11:04:29-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/d9/3c/fb0dd7e24dc9818da0aa0b746fef/clean-v3.png Held, Kissed and Hidden for 500 Years: The Most Intimate Antonello da Messina You’ll Ever See Some paintings were never meant to be seen from across a room. This rare, double-sided work by Antonello da Messina was made to be held, contemplated, and experienced in solitude. Small enough to rest against the chest, it offers a deeply personal encounter with one of the most psychologically powerful images of Christ in Renaissance art — startlingly human, vulnerable, and present. https://www.youtube.com/embed/TRGqn72IrBM?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Old Masters Week Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/the-woman-who-changed-the-world-of-master-drawings-inside-the-diane-nixon-collection 2026-01-29T23:33:50-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/cf/e3/b83a61b245cf9d1004e3727dfce0/nixon-thumbnail-clean.png The Woman Who Changed the World of Master Drawings: Inside the Diane Nixon Collection Great drawings ask for intimacy. They reveal themselves slowly, through line, pressure, and restraint, and they demand a collector with both patience and instinct. Diane Nixon possessed that rare sensitivity. Over just a few decades, she assembled an extraordinary group of European drawings spanning five centuries, guided not by fashion but by an unerring understanding of quality, completeness, and artistic character. https://www.youtube.com/embed/lB4_8tsM6Ek?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Old Masters Week Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/a-medieval-masterpiece-with-one-of-the-rarest-provenances-the-rothschild-vienna-mahzor 2026-01-26T11:53:51-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/30/58/b3f019ed40da814e59ad0d469e55/mahzor-clean.png A Medieval Masterpiece With One of the Rarest Provenances: The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor Sotheby’s is proud to present the fifteenth-century Rothschild Vienna Mahzor. Belonging to a vanishingly small group of illustrated Hebrew prayerbooks produced in medieval Europe, fewer than twenty survive today. Even fewer remain outside institutional collections. Written and illuminated by a Jewish scribe-artist, the manuscript reflects a period of extraordinary artistic sophistication — created under conditions of deep historical precarity. https://www.youtube.com/embed/r0CeNKCQEFI?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Interviews Partnerships Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/why-does-the-man-in-this-2000-year-old-mummy-portrait-look-so-familiar 2026-01-29T16:00:41-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/1c/11/ca3a9a934e63a07c1ef40d2b64cb/fayum-thumbnail.png Why Does the Man In This 2000 Year Old Mummy Portrait Look So Familiar? Nearly two thousand years old, this Roman-period Egyptian mummy portrait feels startlingly modern. Painted in encaustic with hot beeswax and pigment, it once rested over the face of a mummified body, bridging Egyptian funerary tradition and Greco-Roman naturalism. Wrinkles, graying hair, a receding hairline, and arresting hazel eyes are rendered with an honesty rarely associated with antiquity, creating a likeness that resists idealization in favor of something far more intimate. https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEBQ_EzUITM?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/the-lion-roars-jeremy-irons-on-rembrandts-young-lion-resting 2026-01-26T13:45:56-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/8a/eb/790534274850b3e6a7eae6b36754/lion-clean2.png The Lion Roars: Jeremy Irons on Rembrandt’s Young Lion Resting As part of Masters Week, the lion’s long reign—from Rembrandt to Pride Rock—comes back into focus, carried by the unmistakable voice of Jeremy Irons. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wl9oDlVGFk0?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Philanthropy Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/sothebys-old-master-specialists-recreate-pieter-claeszs-still-life-paintings-by-hand 2026-02-20T10:05:20-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/3d/58/8ad666624a03843a1a453b1690e9/weindling-yt4.png Sotheby's Old Master Specialists Recreate Pieter Claesz's Still Life Paintings by Hand At first glance, these paintings look effortless. A pipe abandoned mid-smoke, fruit just beginning to soften, porcelain placed as if by chance. But Dutch still lifes were never casual. Watch as our Sotheby’s art specialists challenge each other, taking two paintings—Toebackje Still Life and Still Life with Assorted Fruit, Including Wild Strawberries and Cherries in Two Porcelain Bowls—by Pieter Claesz off the wall and attempt to rebuild them by hand, using real objects to test just how deliberate these compositions truly are. https://www.youtube.com/embed/QUHFSS_JBSo?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Partnerships Old Masters Week Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-debuts-the-most-valuable-single-owner-american-whiskey-collection-ever-offered 2026-01-07T10:25:46-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-sets-record-for-most-valuable-american-whiskey-collection-the-great-american-whiskey-collection-totals-2-5-million 2026-01-26T11:47:10-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-financial-services-announces-900-million-securitization 2026-01-28T13:07:28-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/new-auction-record-for-a-saudi-artist-set-at-sothebys-origins-sale-in-diriyah 2026-02-02T09:30:17-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/ar/articles/new-auction-record-for-a-saudi-artist-set-at-sothebys-origins-sale-in-diriyah 2026-02-02T09:31:18-05:00