Category: Auction House
Nationality: German
Last Year: 16
Responding to last year’s drastic declines at the Sotheby’s Contemporary Art sales in New York in November, Tobias Meyer told one reporter that the ‘silly money’ was gone and that he was now actually a bit relieved to be auctioneering to a ‘responsible and intelligent audience’. Um… Tobias? Even the Russians? Regardless, it’s still trouble when even the auction houses are getting in on the economic-crisis-will-cleanse-the-artworld’ssoul shtick. Meyer and Westphal still muscle through, and anyone who can engineer the public sale of a Dan Colen for close to $400K must still have some kind of magic touch.