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Will It Always Be Just Sotheby’s & Christie’s?

May 3, 2016 by Marion Maneker

de Pury, The Auctioneer

NPR has a brief story on Simon de Pury’s new memoir, The Auctioneer. In the story, ArtNews’s Nate Freeman makes a strange comment given the growing number of auction houses growing in the so-called middle market:

It will always be Sotheby’s and Christie’s. They are just so cutthroat against each other that it’s very hard for a third house to break in to that very, very fierce rivalry between the two of them. And I think at a certain point, Simon realized that.

Mick Jagger’ Of Auctions Recalls Life In High End Art Trade  (NPR)

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