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Sotheby's Turned a Museum Into an Auction House for Its Fall Sales
The Wall Street Journal
|November 18, 2025
Sotheby's will need to tear down five walls in its biggest gallery the night before its inaugural sale on Tuesday just to make enough room for bidders to sit.
A view of the fourth floor gallery of the Whitney Museum of American Art, left, before Sotheby's bought the building. The new fourth floor, above.
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This story is from the November 18, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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