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Chariot

Going, going, gone: how Sotheby’s and Christie’s still lose out on big sales

December 25, 2019February 3, 2015 by Editorial

Despite increasing prices of art, big profits do not always trickle down to auction houses – thanks to generous guarantees to ultra-rich sellers

Categories Art, Business Tags Alberto Giacometti, Art, Art and design, art fairs in Miami, Article, auction house sales 2014, Balenciaga, CEO of Christie’s, Chariot, Christie's, Christie’s New York auction, Culture, Daniel Loeb, Francois Pinault, French billionaire, galleries of New York, Giacometti for auction, Gucci, Jason Farago, news, Patricia Barbizet, Saint Laurent, sales of contemporary art, sales of contemporary art 2014, Sotheby's, Sotheby’s CEO, Steven Murphy, the age of Piketty, The art market, Third Point Capital, ultra-expensive pictures, William Ruprecht, world’s largest auction houses

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