Old masters surge past estimates in Sotheby's sweep
06 Jul 2026 | Art Auction Collectors art-museumCollectors are bidding aggressively for Northern European paintings, suggesting renewed appetite for classical works at auction.
Collectors are bidding aggressively for Northern European paintings, suggesting renewed appetite for classical works at auction.
Does this 43% premium signal renewed collector appetite for the German photographer’s work, or merely a single outlier result?
Collectors are chasing color and abstraction with abandon, pushing estimates into the stratosphere across multiple houses.