A lavish villa in St. Barth’s which was just sold by Sotheby’s Int’l Realty for $39 million, setting a new record for the chic French West Indies resort, will be available for rent a few weeks out of the year for pre-qualified individuals. Completed late last year, Villa La Grande Maison des Etoiles, located in [...]

Picasso’s Cubist Harlequin Withdrawn From Sotheby’s Sale
“A Picasso Cubist painting that was to have been a star of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art sale on Nov. 3 has been abruptly withdrawn from the auction. … It had been rumored for weeks that the work would be taken off the market because of fears that art [...]

On September 19, Sotheby’s will auction 118 lots of rare (and rarely at auction) Indian and Southeast Asian paintings, miniatures and objects. The group is expected to fetch a total of between $2.3 and $3.2 million. Sotheby’s has experienced unusually high prices for traditional Indian art in recent years, as economic growth in India appears [...]