{"id":11023,"date":"2020-10-28T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11023"},"modified":"2020-11-12T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:26:10","slug":"alfas-sothebys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/28\/alfas-sothebys\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa’s @ Sotheby’s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Sotheby\u2019s Two Evening Sales Bag a Muted $283.9 Million, Fueled by the Scene-Stealing Inclusion of Three Futuristic Alfa Romeos<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Nate Freeman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alfa Romeo, Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica B.A.T. Photo by Ron Kimball \u00a9 2020 RM Sothebys<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before the sales even began, a shocking announcement turned the entire evening into an extended anti-climax. At the last minute, the Baltimore Museum of Art pulled works it had consigned by Clyfford Still and Brice Marden<\/a> after donors threatened to withhold millions of dollars<\/a> in horror and more than a dozen institutional bigwigs signed letters decrying the sell-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a shocking about-face from BMA director Christopher Bedford, a singular figure in the ranks of American museums who\u00a0is steadfastly committed to the idea<\/a>\u00a0that deaccessioning old works from a homogeneous collection is the most efficient way to fill its holdings with new work by young artists of color. In an interview with\u00a0the Baltimore Sun<\/em>\u00a0this week, Bedford accused anyone against his brash approach of making an \u201cinvestment in a system of operating institutions that is very deeply centered in white power and white privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weeks after Christie\u2019s\u00a0made a splash<\/a>\u00a0by selling a T. Rex for $31.8 million in its postwar and contemporary art sale, Sotheby\u2019s embraced the stunt of slotting non-art objects into its auction. The big lot of this portion of the night was not an artwork (or a dinosaur), but a trio of automobiles: three futuristic unique Alfa Romeos, which sold as a group for a hammer price of $13.25 million, short of the $14 million low estimate. With fees, the price was $15.5 million, and it was purchased for a client by Barney Ruprecht, the RM Sotheby\u2019s senior specialist. (His father, Bill Ruprecht, was CEO of the auction house until 2014.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from artnet Sotheby\u2019s Two Evening Sales Bag a Muted $283.9 Million, Fueled by the Scene-Stealing Inclusion of Three Futuristic Alfa Romeos by Nate Freeman Before the sales even began, a shocking announcement turned the entire evening into an extended anti-climax. At the last minute, the Baltimore Museum of Art pulled works it had consigned by Clyfford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}