Dandois and Steinitz light up New York
When the last of the 823 lots in the sale of the contents Ariane Dandois’ Gallery on the Faubourg St Honoré in Paris was hammered down by Sotheby’s on October 26, it provided a $32.2m (£16.9m) grand finale to a month of sales devoted to traditional areas of the decorative arts in New York.
This was the biggest grosser of a dozen sales mounted by Sotheby’s and Christie’s in October devoted…