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Sotheby’s launches first auction dedicated to women artists—but why do we still need a segregated sale in 2021?

“Women artists. There is no such thing—or person,” the Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning once said. “It’s just as much a contradiction in terms as ‘man artist’ or ‘elephant artist’. You may be a woman and you may be an artist, but the one is a given and the other is you.” One can only imagine…

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In bidding confusion at Sotheby’s, unseen Van Gogh initially sells for €16.2m but is then resold for €13m at end of auction

An 1887 painting by Vincent van Gogh, which has never before been exhibited, has sold for €11.2m (€13m with fees) at Sotheby’s Paris. Although the work was fresh to auction, this was its second time under the hammer, having been nearly sold less than an hour before. Scène de rue à Montmartre (Impasse des deux…

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