Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale in London nets a tepid £83.6m and prompts question—is the summer auction season over?
The sale began with Oliver Barker, the chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, taking the rostrum to oversee the offering of 16 works from the collection of the late finance executive Ralph I. Goldenberg, whose trove of chic minimalism and understated Abstract Expressionism met a warm reception.