Inside the $1.5 Billion Paul Allen Sale, the Most Expensive Art Auction of All Time

“Honestly, no one who loves art walks into this room and is not happier just for a moment,” he said. “That gives me hope—that there will be someone of these thousands of people that walks through the galleries and says, ‘I want to buy it.’” Holding a sale the day after an election is always a risk. But tech layoffs and a dipping Dow aside, the art-market worrywarts seemed to see their spirits brighten as the election essentially retained the status quo. At Lodi, Ignacio Mattos’s Rock Center trattoria, those having presale cocktails and spuntino said that they were expecting… Read Full Article