Sotheby’s spring contemporary art sales in Hong Kong fall short of those in 2023; there and at Poly Auction’s spring sale, fewer lots were on offer. A Yoshitomo Nara work sold for US$12.2 million.
Sotheby’s has held two successful auctions of bitcoin ordinals – images, videos or text attached to satoshis, the smallest denomination of bitcoin. Some artworks are fetching up to five times their estimates.
Nicolas Chow, chairman for Asia and worldwide head of Asian art at Sotheby’s, explains how French poet Charles Baudelaire’s book Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) changed his life.