https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/vivian-springford 2026-02-17T12:30:32-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/museums/musee-wiertz-museum 2026-02-25T11:30:19-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/museums/v-a-east-storehouse 2026-02-26T09:31:25-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/living-with-art-why-sculptor-daniel-hourde-is-selling-his-collection 2026-02-06T04:08:08-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/5a/5c/f86dde644f69aef865a99a351d1d/dhourde-tclean.jpg Living with Art: Why Sculptor Daniel Hourdé Is Selling His Collection French sculptor Daniel Hourdé invites us into his private art collection, assembled over decades and comprising African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian, Egyptian and medieval works. This exceptional ensemble of objects reveals a lifelong dialogue between the artist and the art he has chosen to live with. https://www.youtube.com/embed/6wAGnvIDt_Y?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Collectors Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/inside-scottie-pippens-storage-unit-championship-relics-revealed 2026-02-05T09:01:37-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/89/59/e6ca9d1b408baf511440635cc929/clean-1.png Inside Scottie Pippen’s Storage Unit: Championship Relics Revealed Six-time NBA Champion Scottie Pippen opens the storage unit where he’s kept his Chicago Bulls championship memorabilia for decades — revealing relics from one of the greatest dynasties in sports history. https://www.youtube.com/embed/vgPZTv0DsUI?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/this-ancient-portrait-of-a-mystery-man-sold-for-triple-its-estimate-at-auction-sothebys 2026-02-06T10:17:08-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/d0/6d/6864cd2a4042b98d3dfaf971b7c5/fayum-clean.png This Ancient Portrait of a Mystery Man Sold for Triple Its Estimate at Auction An uncanny Fayum portrait set off a dizzying bidding battle at Sotheby's Breuer in New York City this morning, ultimately reaching over three times its estimate in the Master Paintings and Works of Art Auction. The Flavian-period work is among the most arresting examples of ancient portraiture. With his hazel eyes and soft expression, the figure evokes a sense of familiarity and comfort, leaving viewers wondering if they somehow have met him before. https://www.youtube.com/embed/l1V5NdpW7PU?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/alma-thomas-snoopy-sees-sunrise-on-earth-returns-to-sothebys-breuer-after-48-years 2026-02-20T15:08:50-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/65/a5/27b8302e475591e93059a7f54ae3/edit-social-clean.png Alma Thomas’ Snoopy Sees Sunrise on Earth at Sotheby's Breuer Held in the same private collection since 1978, Snoopy Sees Sunrise on Earth (1970) is one of Alma Thomas’ most celebrated Space Paintings—and the first time in nearly five decades that this radiant canvas will be seen publicly. Created at the height of America’s fascination with NASA and the Apollo missions, the work channels the awe of images like Apollo 8’s Earthrise into Thomas’ unmistakable mosaic of vertical brushstrokes. With only around 18 known works in the Space series, most held in major museum collections, this painting stands among the defining achievements of her career. https://www.youtube.com/embed/VUl7iEHIgRU?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Auction Results Contemporary Art Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/alyssa-kapito-on-collecting-without-boundaries-contemporary-curated 2026-02-18T16:00:01-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/17/3b/d0eb39dc484fa6e215d405df2d9b/clean-v1.png Alyssa Kapito on Collecting Without Boundaries | Contemporary Curated Interior designer Alyssa Kapito believes art is the soul of a space — the element that brings proportion, texture, and emotion into a room. At Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated sale at the Breuer, she brings that philosophy to life, placing works by Donald Judd, Alma Thomas, Sean Scully, Richard Prince, and Gerhard Richter into dialogue with one another. The result is a collection shaped not just by name, but by material, color, and atmosphere. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BvGfQ16MBQ0?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Contemporary Art Contemporary Curated Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/the-masters-of-the-london-school-head-to-sothebys-in-the-lewis-collection 2026-02-19T16:22:34-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/73/2d/0c70043a48fd903c2441cceba7cc/clean.png The School of London Masters Head to Sotheby's in The Lewis Collection This March in London, Sotheby's will offer four Masterpieces from The Lewis Collection. Few collections so powerfully represent post-war London’s moment in time, place, and history as this collection. Assembled with a discerning eye, singular conviction, and unwavering dedication, Masterpieces from The Lewis Collection brings together four exceptional works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff — paintings that rank amongst the finest achievements across their respective careers. Created across four decades, they capture the School of London at its most psychologically charged and artistically assured. Each work stands independently as a masterpiece, yet together they articulate a powerful shared commitment: a return to the human figure at a time when abstraction, minimalism and conceptual practices dominated post-war artistic discourse. Raw, unflinching and profoundly psychological, these paintings capture the School of London at its apex and the zenith of each artist’s career. The presentation of this group offers a rare opportunity to encounter four defining achievements of the School of London together — works that not only reflect a pivotal chapter in art history yet continue to shape the trajectory of figurative painting worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/embed/gZ68EFL_fpw?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Contemporary Art Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/what-connects-warhol-magritte-judd-inside-contours-of-modernity 2026-02-20T15:00:19-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/35/94/75e1168b41bbbcf4db7f52763b51/contours2-web-1.jpg What Connects Warhol, Magritte & Judd? Inside “Contours of Modernity” What happens when a single collector brings together Pierre Soulages, Josef Albers, Donald Judd, Piero Manzoni, René Magritte, Antony Gormley and Andy Warhol under one curatorial vision? Contours of Modernity: A Private European Collection traces the evolution of Modernism through abstraction, material experimentation, geometry, and image-making—revealing how artists across Europe and America redefined perception after the Second World War. https://www.youtube.com/embed/iWWBt_ncEqk?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Andy Warhol Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/how-italian-artist-lucio-fontana-tore-through-the-fabric-of-space-and-time 2026-02-23T16:39:11-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/67/f2/5f7ec0b04d38963df96244e05ccf/fontana-web.jpg How Italian Artist Lucio Fontana Tore Through the Fabric of Space and Time Lucio Fontana didn’t just change how art looked, he changed what it could be. Across five seminal works created between the mid-1950s and the 1960s, a new artistic language begins to take shape, one defined by punctures, slashes, raw material, and an obsession with space. Seen together, these works trace a restless pursuit of infinity, unfolding alongside the space race and a world reimagining its relationship to science, matter, and the unknown. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BHdIZG019kM?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/chaos-light-movement-leon-kossoffs-swimming-pool-masterpiece 2026-02-20T10:28:31-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/3a/86/47fcc4134a108c05f8d9d4261829/kossoff-web.jpg Chaos, Light & Movement: Leon Kossoff’s Swimming Pool Masterpiece Step into a bustling Saturday morning at a London public pool through the eyes of Leon Kossoff. Every splash, every ripple, every glint of sunlight is captured with a painterly precision that transforms ordinary summer leisure into a living, breathing tableau. With over forty figures animated across the canvas, this is more than a painting—it’s an experience of energy, rhythm, and human presence. https://www.youtube.com/embed/eYe2UIKdDyw?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Anatomy of an Artwork Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/inside-the-most-valuable-single-owner-design-sale-in-sothebys-history-de-gunzburg-collection 2026-02-23T14:59:57-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/bd/0a/1afd7b6f4e828c88b2da683d6c26/clean-clean.png Inside the Most Valuable Single-Owner Design Sale in Sotheby’s History | de Gunzburg Collection A landmark chapter in the history of design and modern art unfolds as Sotheby’s presents the Collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg, one of the most intellectually rigorous and aesthetically unified private collections assembled over the past four decades. Anchored by an extraordinary ensemble of mirrors by Claude Lalanne created for the music room of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, this sale marks the most valuable single-owner design auction in Sotheby’s history. From the refinement of French Art Deco to postwar abstraction, the collection traces a lineage of radical creativity that reshaped the language of form in the twentieth century. https://www.youtube.com/embed/vfIJGcDM6SM?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/what-does-movement-taste-like-the-kinetic-wine-collection-of-joel-shapiro 2026-02-26T17:15:26-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/d9/bd/94e1ac59486994bf70ef0f08c254/wine-clean.png What Does Movement Taste Like? The Kinetic Wine Collection of Joel Shapiro What does movement taste like? https://www.youtube.com/embed/9D2SQL5ibzY?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Interviews Expert Voices Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/artists-supporting-artists-how-the-royal-academy-of-arts-and-sothebys-are-giving-back 2026-02-25T06:00:08-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/1d/4d/c43a2f8b476ca1cbbd298484a1fd/ra-web.jpg Artists Supporting Artists | How the Royal Academy of Arts are Sustaining a Future Generation For more than 250 years, the Royal Academy of Arts has been shaped by artists, for artists. Now, a new charity auction brings together Royal Academicians, emerging talent from the RA Schools, and Sotheby’s in a rare collaboration where artistic excellence directly supports the future of creative practice. From celebrated names to the next generation still finding their voice, this initiative traces how institutions, artists, and responsibility intersect. https://www.youtube.com/embed/GyuCuqrlsWI?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/francis-bacons-journey-to-the-darkest-depths-of-the-self-portrait-sothebys 2026-02-25T04:46:52-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/d2/26/9ab61ce244e2abbd3aa4c079f95c/bacon2-web.jpg Francis Bacon's Journey to the Darkest Depths of the Self-Portrait Few artists have probed the human psyche with as much ferocity and honesty as Francis Bacon. His self-portraits are not just images—they are psychological arenas, spaces where identity, mortality, and emotion collide. Each face becomes a battleground: smudged eyes, collapsing jaws, twisted forms that reveal the raw, flickering truth of existence. From anguish and grief to moments of luminous intensity, Bacon’s canvases capture the force of a mind confronting itself. https://www.youtube.com/embed/jUIFnNuPUbs?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/from-one-world-to-another-jean-marie-rossi-rebel-art-dealer-collector-patron 2026-02-24T13:07:25-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/ba/f3/d076089640868d5040e39d45e46b/rossi4-clean.jpg From One World to Another: Jean-Marie Rossi — Rebel Art Dealer, Collector & Patron Meet Jean-Marie Rossi — the multifaceted art dealer who refused to play by the rules. https://www.youtube.com/embed/-WbKUI9uqw4?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Collectors Contemporary Art Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/the-muse-in-freuds-portrait-speaks-sophie-de-stempel-on-modelling-for-a-master 2026-02-25T13:44:29-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/a3/5a/53de743a4c2fbb223d88db407ad8/freud3-web.jpg The Muse in Freud's Portrait Speaks: Sophie de Stempel on Modelling for a Master What does it mean to be seen by Lucian Freud? Painter Sophie de Stempel reflects on sitting for Freud in the 1980s, recalling the prolonged scrutiny, technical precision and psychological intensity that shaped Blond Girl on a Bed (1987). Over months of sustained observation, Freud transformed the reclining nude into something weighty and immediate — flesh responsive to gravity, paint built into dense, tactile passages, the studio environment rendered with equal conviction. De Stempel remembers the silence, the stillness, and the sensation that every inch of her presence was being translated into paint. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xi5w3gjlscU?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/monet-vs-the-mediterranean-a-battle-with-light 2026-02-27T05:25:33-05:00 https://sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com/17/11/636bd60d43b69314ae0ad64d8433/monet-web.jpg Monet vs. The Mediterranean: A Battle with Light ¶“I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful… the light is simply terrifying.” https://www.youtube.com/embed/qLdrSCdG1Rk?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Expert Voices Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/jewels-at-sothebys 2026-02-27T07:55:49-05:00 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gjPFz0wN8ww/hqdefault.jpg Jewels at Sotheby's Our salerooms have been buzzing, demonstrating high demand for jewels from an increasingly wide breadth of clients. We capitalise on this momentum, leveraging our deep market intelligence and buyer relationships to maximise financial return for our consignors. We are currently accepting consignments for our upcoming 2026 global Jewelry auctions. We invite you to contact our experts to receive a free and confidential valuation. https://www.youtube.com/embed/gjPFz0wN8ww?feature=oembed&autoplay=1 Sotheby's Diamonds Jewelry Stories & Videos https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-and-forsters-an-owners-guide-to-art-part-5 2026-02-26T10:41:36-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-and-forsters-an-owners-guide-to-art-part-4 2026-02-26T10:41:38-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-and-forsters-an-owners-guide-to-art-part-3 2026-02-26T10:41:40-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-and-forsters-an-owners-guide-to-art-part-2 2026-02-26T10:41:42-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-and-forsters-an-owners-guide-to-art-part-1 2026-02-26T10:41:44-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-unveils-seminal-works-by-fontana-more-from-private-german-collection 2026-02-05T09:52:22-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/scottie-pippens-basketball-legacy-comes-to-sothebys 2026-02-05T09:54:57-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-to-offer-four-masterworks-by-leading-lights-of-impressionist-modern-art 2026-02-11T12:01:51-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/masterpieces-by-bacon-freud-and-kossoff-from-the-lewis-collection-to-lead-sothebys-march-sales 2026-02-13T11:56:17-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-reports-2025-financial-results 2026-02-18T15:07:35-05:00 https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/sothebys-unveils-the-collection-of-jean-terry-de-gunzburg-anchored-by-historic-design-sale 2026-02-23T15:41:33-05:00