Sotheby's £130m contemporary sale

July 2 2015

Image of Sotheby's £130m contemporary sale

Picture: Melanie Girlis

There was a protest outside Sotheby's 'record sale' in London last night (I'm not quite sure which record, there's so many of them these days), as photographed above by The Art Newspaper's Melanie Girlis. Such is the way of the contemporary art world, it probably helped prices.

Marion Maneker of the Art Market Monitor has a breakdown of the sale here

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