The college drop-out became a real estate billionaire by developing architecturally distinctive high-rise buildings in Manhattan.
The pandemic has upended the decades-old auction format and schedule.
The real surprise at a 20th century art auction was a 67-million-year-old fossil.
The billionaire continues to pare his holdings.
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“Young Man Holding a Roundel” will be sold anonymously in January in a test of the ultra-high-end art market.
Bit by bit, billionaire Ronald O. Perelman is parting with his treasures.
At last year’s show, someone paid $120,000 for a peeled banana stuck to a wall with duct tape.
Ronald Perelman has authorized Sotheby’s to find buyers for hundreds of millions of dollars of works.
Auction houses are following the flight of wealth away from cities.