| Americans Are Heaviest Bidders on Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby’s Unlike at the Christie’s sale, which was dominated by European buyers, at Sotheby’s Americans took home 67 percent of the work, and Europeans bought 27 percent. nytimes.com |
Buyer of Gandhi Effects Is No Ascetic Father of India Vijay Mallya, the business tycoon who calls himself the “King of Good Times,” is worth an estimated $390 million. nytimes.com |
New Auction Scheduled to Sell Polaroid’s Assets Polaroid must try again to auction off its assets after failing to win the approval of Judge Gregory F. Kishel of United States Bankruptcy Court for a $56.3 million sale. nytimes.com |
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week included an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday. nytimes.com |
Buyer of Giacometti Sculpture Is Revealed The Giacometti sculpture “Walking Man I,” which sold for a record $104.3 million at Sotheby’s last month, was bought by the billionaire Lily Safra, according to Bloomberg News. nytimes.com |