Huge single-owner sale is London’s first in euros
Sotheby’s break mould in bid to lure Germans: A little piece of history was made on October 8 and 9 when Sotheby’s four-part dispersal of the Beck Collection of 20th Century German and Austrian art became the first major sale ever to be conducted in euros in a London auction room.
At 411 lots, the collection amassed by the Stuttgart-based Beck family was also the largest single-o…