Ahead of the November sales, and with fresh backing from the UAE, Charlie Stewart discusses his next steps at the centuries-old auction house. Plus, all the gossip from gala season in this week’s edition.
“The best thing about this place, I mean, it has a place in Sotheby’s history,” said Stewart in the entrance of the 490,000-square-foot block-through space, passing the reception, saying hello to everybody, and greeting them with a smile and their first names. He wove through some freestanding first-floor galleries to the back, where a battalion of gloved handlers were getting ready to install a massive Louis Comfort Tiffany glass panel.
But the November consignment that’s getting the most attention is Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian. Yes, the banana taped to a wall at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019 is back, and it is about to become one very expensive piece of produce. The original frenzy over Comedian came about when the general populace heard about art collectors paying $120,000 for the first two editions and then $150,000 for the third. Get ready for the reaction when this thing sells for between $1 million and $1.
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