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These three artworks could sell for $100 million each next week as May auctions begin

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“Nearly $2 billion worth of art will come up for auction in New York over the next week”
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Multiple web search results confirm the scale of the New York auctions, with one source mentioning $1.8 billion and another mentioning 'billions of dollars' and a projected range up to $2.6 billion.
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web search NEUTRAL — Five luxury artworks hold the key to the spring season, one of the most anticipated sales in years. Major buyers are looking past female and younger artists and toward tradition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/arts/design/art-auction-p…
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web search NEUTRAL — New York's fairs and $1.8 billion May auctions will test whether the art market’s recovery has real staying power.Things are cooking in New York. Margaret Carrigan. News Editor.
https://news.artnet.com/market/new-york-art-week-2771331
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web search NEUTRAL — Sotheby's is the premier destination for auctions and private sales of Contemporary, Modern & Impressionist, Old Master Paintings, Jewelry, Watches, Wine, Decorative Arts, Asian Art & more.La Mercerie…
https://www.sothebys.com/
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“Three works coming to auction are estimated to sell for up to $100 million”
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One specific source ('May art auctions: Three pieces could sell for $100 million each') explicitly mentions three pieces could sell for $100 million each, but other provided search results do not corroborate the specific number of works at that exact estimate.
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web search NEUTRAL — ^ Exact price (even the currency of sale) is not known, with estimates from $250 million to $300 million. ^ Within weeks after a private viewing in Vienna in September 2012, Rybolovlev agreed to pay $…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintin…
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web search NEUTRAL — The auction, which could generate up to $30 million, is headlined by Judd’s copper and red Plexiglas “stack” sculpture from 1969, which stretches from floor to ceiling and casts a rosy glow; and Flavi…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/arts/design/art-auction-p…
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web search NEUTRAL — Next week, billions of dollars of art will be up for sale at New York City auction houses, and the performance of top lots will set the tone for the art market for the next six months.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-5-lots-will-br…
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“over 20 works are estimated at $20 million or more, more than triple last year's total”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'more' and a health insurance login page; there is no actual data regarding the number of artworks estimated at $20 million.
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https://www.andmorehealth.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · The meaning of MORE is greater. How to use more in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more
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web search NEUTRAL — (used with a pl. verb) A greater or additional number of persons or things: I opened only two bottles but more were in the refrigerator.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/more
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“Sales for the three auction houses are expected to total between $1.8 billion and $2.6 billion, according to ArtTactic”
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web search NEUTRAL — Auction sales are no longer the benchmark for measuring the pulse of the art market. The entire landscape is shifting, whether it's shrinking is hard to tell. But what’s clear is this: the buying beha…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guillaume-cerutti-96529412a_a…
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web search NEUTRAL — Five luxury artworks hold the key to the spring season, one of the most anticipated sales in years. Major buyers are looking past female and younger artists and toward tradition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/arts/design/art-auction-p…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sales of art at the major auction houses in London this week continued to show that the art market isn’t climbing out of the doldrums just yet. Still, a week of auctions, art fairs, and exhibitions at…
https://www.barrons.com/articles/signs-of-art-market-strengt…
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“At $2 billion, the sales would nearly double last year's total”
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The evidence explicitly states: 'At $2 billion, the sales would nearly double last year's total.'
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web search NEUTRAL — In a $2.2 Billion Week, the Art Market Finds Its Footing After years of declining sales, records set from major collections (Klimt, Kahlo) primed the auction houses for a rebound at the top.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/arts/design/2-2-billion-w…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sales for the three auction houses are expected to total between $1.8 billion and $2.6 billion, according to ArtTactic. At $2 billion, the sales would nearly double last year's total.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/may-art-auctions-sales-estim…
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web search NEUTRAL — Christie's sold seven of the top 10 and every one of the top four works of art at auction. In addition, overall auction sales in our leading category, 20/21, were stable to last year at $1.3B. In the …
https://press.christies.com/christies-projected-auction-sale…
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“In 2023 auction sales started declining as sellers held back their top works”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of links to trigonometry and scientific calculators, which are completely irrelevant to art auction sales.
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web search NEUTRAL — Effortlessly find trigonometric function values (sin, cos, tan, cot) or solve for missing sides or angles in a right triangle using our remarkable tool crafted by experts.
https://www.omnicalculator.com/math/trigonometry
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web search NEUTRAL — All clear button clears the calculator, tape, and resets any functions. Memory recall button retrieves the number you have in memory and places it in the display field. Memory plus button adds the num…
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web search NEUTRAL — A beautiful, free online scientific calculator with advanced features for evaluating percentages, fractions, exponential functions, logarithms, trigonometry, statistics, and more.
https://www.desmos.com/scientific
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“The recent auctions in London – including a $175 million "white glove" sale at Sotheby's”
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While there are results for Sotheby's London sales, none of the provided evidence mentions a specific 'white glove' sale totaling $175 million.
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web search NEUTRAL — Morgane Halimi, Sotheby's global head of handbags and fashion, said the price was a "startling demonstration of the power of a legend and its capacity to ignite the passion and desire of collectors se…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8zvexp42o
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web search NEUTRAL — After the sale, Sotheby’s Amy Cappellazzo confirmed that uncertainty over Brexit had not made it any easier gathering works for the London sale, though around one third of the lots had come from the U…
https://news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-contemporary-evening…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sotheby's did not disclose the current owner of the home. Even if it sells at the asking price, the $97 million home will not be the most expensive residence to ever sell in the UK. That record is cur…
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-house-for-sal…
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“Christie's is offering works from the collection of Samuel Irving "S.I." Newhouse Jr., the media titan who died in 2017”
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Wikipedia confirms Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr. died in 2017, and other sources confirm Christie's is selling works from his collection.
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web search NEUTRAL — Samuel Irving "S.I." Newhouse Jr. (November 8, 1927 – October 1, 2017) was an American heir to a substantial magazine and media business. Together with his brother Donald, he owned Advance Publication…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Jr.
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web search NEUTRAL — Newhouse, the esteemed collector who died in October 2017, purchased “Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing” (1969) from the artist’s sister, Ianth Bacon.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-francis-bacon-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The private art collection of the late media mogul Samuel Irving “S.I.” Newhouse Jr. is expected to surpass $1 billion in total value at the high-profile Christie’s auction on May 18, per nbcnews.com.…
https://thelagosreview.ng/s-i-newhouse-art-collection-expect…
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“"Danaide," a 1913 sculpture by Constantin Brancusi estimated to sell for $100 million”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support the estimate for the Brancusi sculpture 'Danaide'.
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“A large-scale Jackson Pollock drip painting titled "Number 7A, 1948" is also estimated at $100 million”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support the estimate for the Jackson Pollock painting 'Number 7A, 1948'.
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“Christie's is also selling works from the late collector Agnes Gund, including Mark Rothko's "No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe)" estimated at $80 million”
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“A Rothko also headlines the collection of the late Robert Mnuchin being sold at Sotheby's”
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“Robert Mnuchin, the former Goldman Sachs partner-turned-gallerist and father of former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin”
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“The auction includes Rothko's towering "Brown and Blacks in Reds" estimated at $70 million to $100 million”
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