Auctions at Sotheby’s worldwide totalled $5.3 billion in 2018. This is a 12% increase over 2017. Online buyers spent more than $200 million this year and 25% of all lots sold in 2018 were sold online. The top lot of the year at any auction house was Modigliani’s Nu Couche which sold for $157.2 million in New York in May. This was the highest auction price in Sotheby’s history.
Queen Marie Antoinette’s pearl sold for $36.2 million in Geneva in November.
Amedeo Modigliani Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) Signed Modigliani (lower left)