Brooke Lampley leaves Sotheby’s to hitch Gagosian in newest high-profile public sale departure

Brooke Lampley, a longtime fixture at Sotheby’s modern and trendy gross sales, will go away the public sale home on the finish of the month to hitch Gagosian as a senior director later this 12 months. She is going to proceed to be based mostly in New York, the gallery mentioned in an announcement.

At Sotheby’s, Lampley was most lately the worldwide chairman and head of worldwide superb artwork. In her function, she oversaw specialists in classes together with modern and trendy artwork and images. Based on Gagosian, she helped safe high-profile consignments and drove report outcomes for each auctions and the home’s personal gross sales division. In 2021, Sotheby’s international superb arts workforce reached $7.4bn in complete gross sales below her management, a report for the corporate. Earlier than becoming a member of Sotheby’s six years in the past, she led Christie’s Impressionist and trendy workforce.

Based on Sotheby’s, Lampley was “instrumental” in Sotheby’s securing the Emily Fisher Landau assortment, final 12 months’s most precious consignment of the season, which introduced in $351.6m ($406.4m with charges), a report for a feminine collector at public sale. Lampley was additionally a part of the workforce that introduced Linda and Harry Macklowe’s assortment to market, which fetched $922.2m with charges and broke the report for probably the most useful artwork assortment to promote at public sale (till six months later, when Paul Allen’s offered at Christie’s for $1.5bn).

“After 20 years of auctions, I’m excited to expertise one other facet of the artwork world, and to study from the perfect,” Lampley mentioned in an announcement. “My love of artwork is what drives me, and I’m trying ahead to getting nearer to artists and considering deeply in regards to the evolution of a physique of labor.”

Lampley is the most recent high-profile public sale chief to go away one of many homes, although most others have opted to enter personal art-advisory roles over industrial galleries. Christie’s introduced in October that international president Jussi Pylkkänen would step down in 2024 to pursue unbiased artwork advising. In 2021, Sotheby’s then-global head of superb artwork Amy Cappellazzo introduced she would step down, and later joined up with Yuki Terase, additionally an ex-Sotheby’s rainmaker, to type the advisory Artwork Intelligence World.