THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Robin Pogrebin
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| A rendering shows how Sotheby’s plans to hold live auctions remotely beginning June 29. The auctioneer will be in London and bids taken from around the world. Sotheby's |
The Sotheby’s auctioneer, Oliver Barker, will be live, by video, in London, looking at screens showing his associates live in New York, Hong Kong and elsewhere, who will be on the phone with live bidders all over the world. But this digitally streamed live auction next month will allow Sotheby’s to proceed with its big-ticket biannual art sale that was supposed to take place in May but was delayed by the coronavirus outbreak. On Friday in a conference call, Sotheby’s executives announced that the first sale, of contemporary art, would be June 29 beginning at 6:30 p.m., immediately followed by its Impressionist and modern art evening sale. [
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| Francis Bacon’s “Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus” (1981) is expected to lead the New York sale. The Estate of Francis Bacon/DACS, London/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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