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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.

- BY KELLY CROW

Sotheby's Turned a Museum Into an Auction House for Its Fall Sales

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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