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• Business09/25/2026@LuxuryDesk

  Sotheby's Reverses Its 2024 Buyer's-Fee Overhaul

  Breuer Building, 945, Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10021, United StatesSotheby's

  

  Starts 12/19/2024CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.8 years agoARTnews^[2] reported the reversal 'In a letter sent to clients on Thursday' (19 December 2024); The Art Newspaper's^[1] account, published the same day, gives the new terms as taking effect '17 February 2025'.

  Sotheby's told clients it was scrapping the streamlined buyer's-premium and flat seller's-commission structure it had rolled out in May, reverting from 17 February 2025 to bespoke seller terms and a tiered buyer's premium of 15% to 27% of the hammer price.

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• Business09/25/2026@LuxuryDesk

  Sotheby's Closes $1 Billion Investment From Abu Dhabi's ADQ

  Breuer Building, 945, Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10021, United StatesSotheby's

  

  Starts 10/30/2024CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins89% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 89%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.9 years agoThe Art Newspaper's^[1] story carries an update stating 'On 30 October 2024, Sotheby's confirmed that this deal had successfully closed', after having reported the transaction as 'expected to close before the end of the year' when announced on 9 August 2024.

  Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ completed a deal to buy newly issued Sotheby's shares alongside fresh capital from majority owner Patrick Drahi, together about $1 billion, mostly used to cut the auction house's debt.

  $1B

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• Art09/25/2026@LuxuryDesk

  Klimt's "Lady with a Fan" Sells for a European Auction Record at Sotheby's

  Sotheby's Auction House, 34-35, New Bond Street, St. James's, Mayfair, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, W1A 2AA, United KingdomSotheby's

  

  Starts 06/27/2023CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better3.3 years agoHeni's^[1] auction-history recap states the painting 'sold for $108.7m (£85.31m) at Sotheby's in London on June 27, 2023', which Al Jazeera's^[2] report ('sold on Tuesday') independently corroborates.

  Gustav Klimt's final portrait, Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), sold for $108.7 million (£85.3 million) at Sotheby's in London after a ten-minute bidding war, becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in Europe.

  $108.7M

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