New York marquee auction week: who fills the room, 16 September
Mid-November's evening sales set the public price of the world's most expensive objects. Here is the approaching signal.
New York marquee auction week·Mid-NovemberThe approaching signal
Mid-November's evening sales at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York function as the art market's earnings season. A single fortnight of marquee auctions can move one to two billion dollars or more across the hammer. The November window sets the public price of the world's most expensive objects, and of the estates being quietly settled behind them.
The room and the paddles
The audience for the trophy lots is narrow. Trophy-lot bidders, estate lawyers, and museum patrons with paddles fill the saleroom. Arrival is by private jet. The geography of the week is concentrated around the two houses in New York, with the evening sales serving as the primary theatre for the fortnight's volume.
The calendar and the window
The window opens around 10 November and runs through mid-November. The evening sales are the scheduled anchor. Bidders and their counsel will be finalizing absentee bids and reviewing provenance files now, ahead of the public viewings and the gavel.
The scheduled read
This is an approaching note. The public price of the season will be set in the room in November. The estates being settled behind the lots remain the quieter signal to watch.
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New York marquee auction week
The art market’s earnings season. The November evening sales in New York set the public price of the world’s most expensive objects, and of the estates being quietly settled behind them.
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