Sotheby's
appointed on January 31, 2014 Alexander Rotter and Cheyenne Westphal as its new
heads of its Contempary art department after Tobias Meyer left the group at the end of
November 2013 while Helena Newman and Simon shaw have been designated to manage
its sales of Impressionist and Modern art.
Rotter played an active role in
many of Sotheby's sales, notably regarding the Rockefeller
Rothko sold for 72.8
million USD, Jeff Koons' Hanging Heart which
fetched 23.6 million USD, and the Silver Car Crash by Andy Warhol hammered at a record
104 million USD in November 2013.
Westphal played a major part in
the 2008 Damien Hirst sale, “Beautiful Inside My Head
Forever”, which totalled 200.75 million USD, the sale of the Duerckheim
Collection in 2011 which cornered over 92 million USD, and the sale of the
Gunther Sachs Collection in 2012 that reaped 65.5 million USD.
Newman, who joined Sotheby's in
1988 and developed sales dedicated to German and Austrian art, organized
several important sales, particularly the February 2010 auction, the best sale
held in Europe, which, totalled 263.6 million USD, while Shaw did well with the
2012 sale of Edvard Munch's The
Scream, which sold for a record price of 119.9 million USD. He held previous posts at Sotheby's in Stockholm, Paris and London.
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