The woman shaking up the conservative world of auctioneering

Auctioneering has always been a man’s world. Now women, like Helena Newman, Co-Head for Impressionist and Modern Art Worldwide at Sotheby’s, are putting the hammer down on this particular glass ceiling with elegance and poise. 

Newman is also taking the auction for major evening sales (the fanciest and of highest value auctions) of impressionist and modern art in London and New York. At an auction in March, she broke a record for highest price for a painting ever sold in Europe.  Read more…

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