Sotheby’s Exclusive Art and Collectibles Now Available to eBay’s
155 Million Active Buyers In Real Time Anywhere Around the Globe
First Sales Feature Remarkable Property, Highlights Include:
“Photographs” at 10:00am EDT from Vintage Masters Cartier-Bresson,
Man Ray and Weston, to Arbus and Abbott, Penn and Avedon to Contemporary
Photographers Olafur Eliasson, Vik Muniz, and Carrie Mae Weems
“The New York Sale” 8:00pm EDT features visual art from the 19th
to 21st centuries, jewelry, and
collectibles created in or inspired by the “City That Never Sleeps”
Sales Mark the Inaugural Sotheby’s live auctions on eBay.com/sothebys
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NEW YORK -- (Business Wire)
Tomorrow, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Sotheby’s (NYSE: BID) will mark the
launch of the first live events in the new Sotheby’s live auctions
experience with the themed “Photographs” and “New York” sales. The
experience enables art aficionados and casual collectors alike to
participate in Sotheby’s live auctions anytime, anywhere with the same
confidence and access of those bidding in person in the New York
salesroom.
Terry O'Neill Faye Dunaway at The Beverly Hills Hotel
The Sotheby’s live auctions destination features high-resolution images,
hosted video capabilities, live streaming audio and video, and
innovative “Museum View” transitions that bring the experience of
walking through a museum or gallery to life in the online world –
including enhanced zoom, in-context images, and item-level video. The
online platform enables eBay’s 155 million active buyers to log-in and
participate in Sotheby’s live-time auctions. Participants — regardless
of their location — see the exact same item and current real-time
bidding online and experience real-time bidding sensitive to the
millisecond, allowing them to bid as if they were lifting a paddle with
every click of the mouse. New technology debuting within the Sotheby’s
live auctions will give users the first chance to experience crystal
clear, live streaming video and audio from the Sotheby’s floor in New
York.
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The “Photographs” sale features works from the 19th Century
to Modernism to Post-War eras by many masters of the medium,
including Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, László Moholy-Nagy, and
Man Ray
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| Where: | | http://www.ebay.com/clt/collectibles-live-events/photographs-562422 | |
| When: | |
April 1, 2015 at 10 a.m. Eastern
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| What: | | “The New York Sale” is inspired by and celebrates the city
through Prints, Photographs, Paintings, Sculptures, Silver, Books
and Jewelry as well as iconic New York memorabilia such as the
monumental sign atop Yankee Stadium from 1976–2008. The 13 letters
– each 10 feet tall – are being auctioned together as a single
lot, and are on offer from the collection of Yankee legend Reggie
“Mr. October” Jackson
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| Where: | | http://www.ebay.com/clt/collectibles-live-events/the-new-york-sale-551021 | |
| When: | |
April 1, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern
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For additional information on all upcoming auctions, visit: http://www.ebay.com/clt/sothebys/upcoming.
Please note that all first time participants will need to register 24
hours in advance.
For multimedia assets, visit here.
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About Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art
since 1744. Sotheby’s became the first international auction house when
it expanded from London to New York (1955), the first to conduct sales
in Hong Kong (1973) and France (2001), and the first international fine
art auction house in China (2012). Today, Sotheby’s presents auctions in
eight different salesrooms, including New York, London, Hong Kong and
Paris. Sotheby’s offers collectors the resources of Sotheby’s Financial
Services, the world’s only full-service art financing company, as well
as private sale opportunities in more than 70 categories, including S|2,
the gallery arm of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art department, as well as
Sotheby’s Diamonds and Sotheby’s Wine. Sotheby’s has a global network of
90 offices in 40 countries and is the oldest company listed on the New
York Stock Exchange (BID).
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Contacts:
eBay
Kari Ramirez, 408-376-8023
press@ebay.com
or
Sotheby’s
Lauren
Gioia, 212-606-7176
Lauren.Gioia@sothebys.com
Source: eBay
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