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Luxury Auction Houses - Directory w/ AI Reviews
The world's leading auction houses for fine art, jewelry, rare collectibles, and luxury goods. Phillips and Bonhams conduct prestigious sales that attract serious collectors and investors from around the globe, offering rigorous authentication, expert cataloguing, and both live and online bidding. These auction houses serve as key secondary market venues for some of the most valuable and rare objects in circulation.
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RM Sotheby's
Est. 1991
Blenheim, Canada
RM Sotheby's is the leading auction house for collector cars, staging flagship sales at Monterey, Amelia Island, Paris, and Villa Erba. Formed when Sotheby's partnered with RM Auctions in 2015, it holds the world record for the most expensive car ever auctioned, the 135 million euro Mercedes-Benz 30
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Gooding Christie's
Est. 2003
Santa Monica, United States
Gooding Christie's, founded in 2003 as Gooding & Company and now owned by Christie's, is the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and a record-setter for Ferrari, Bugatti, and Duesenberg sales. Its calendar spans Pebble Beach, Amelia Island, and new Retromobile auctions in
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Phillips
High Luxury
Varies
Est. 1796
London, United Kingdom
Phillips conducts auctions specializing in contemporary art, design, photographs, watches, and jewelry. The house operates principal salerooms in New York, London, and Geneva, offering live, online, and private sales. Phillips has established particular authority in the watch auction segment, where
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Dorotheum
Est. 1707
Vienna, Austria
Founded by imperial decree in 1707, Dorotheum in Vienna is one of the world's oldest auction houses and the largest in Central Europe, running several hundred sales a year across more than 40 departments spanning old masters, modern art, jewellery, watches, design, and classic cars, with representat
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Bonhams
High Luxury
Varies
Est. 1793
London, United Kingdom
Bonhams conducts hundreds of auctions annually across fine art, motor cars, jewelry, watches, Asian art, wine, whisky, and collectibles. The house operates principal salerooms in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong. Bonhams holds a leading position in the collector motor car auction segment
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Artcurial
Est. 2002
Paris, France
Artcurial is France's leading independent auction house, based in the Hotel Marcel Dassault on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Its departments span fine art, design, jewelry, watches, wine, and fashion, and its Motorcars division stages one of Europe's most important collector car auctions each year at
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Tajan
Est. 1864
Paris, France
Tajan has anchored the Paris auction scene since 1864, holding more than sixty sales a year in Asian art, contemporary art, jewellery, watches, fine wine, and design from its Art Deco salerooms near the Madeleine. Independently owned since 2003 by collector Rodica Seward, it remains one of France's
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Heritage Auctions
Est. 1976
Dallas, Texas, USA
Heritage Auctions is one of the largest auction houses in the world, founded in Dallas in 1976. It runs live and weekly online auctions across fine art, jewelry, watches, luxury handbags, wine, and dozens of collectibles categories, with galleries in Dallas, New York, Beverly Hills, London, and Hong
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