Alison Levasseur

Author Christopher Mason, who was in the Sotheby’s New York salesroom yesterday, captured the moment when the hammer went down on Modigliani’s Portrait de Paulette Jourdain. The painting led the $377 million “Masterworks” sale, which kicked off the auction house’s fall season as well a series of four auctions offering the 500-lot collection of A. Alfred Taubman, a shopping mall magnate and former Sotheby’s chairman, who died earlier this year. The red carpet was unfurled outside of the auction h…

Sotheby’s sold the eccentric work of art commissioned by a San Francisco millionairess for nearly three times its estimated value

European garden lovers are salivating over a one-time online auction of exceptional plants and trees from top nurseries

For the first time Sotheby’s partners with an interior designer to showcase the lots in its biannual decorative arts sale in New York City

A rare gray pearl necklace is on the auction block at Sotheby’s Hong Kong

Dior opens its newest boutique in Seoul, designed by Christian de Portzamparc and Peter Marino

Christie’s is selling a Louis XVI gilt-wood chair once owned by Marie Antoinette

Proceeds from a limited-edition Hermès scarf will benefit the restoration of Versailles

A work by Pablo Picasso moves from one film industry titan to another

Phillips London is set to auction an iconic piece of sculptural furniture by Marc Newson