THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · LIKE® AUCTIONS & COLLECTING
AUCTIONS & COLLECTING
The world's auction houses — who owns them in late 2026, who leads them, what they sell, where their salerooms stand, and how a reader bids, consigns or asks for a valuation. LIKE® Auctions & Collecting opens its worldwide coverage with the houses themselves, verified name by name in the season when more of them changed hands than in any year in memory.
THE GUIDES
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
THE WORLD'S AUCTION HOUSES
30 houses — from Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips to Seoul Auction, Swann, RM Sotheby's and AstaGuru — with every house's ownership as it stands in late 2026, its chief executive and its chair verified individually, its salerooms, its sale calendar in words, and its published sales total where one exists. Bonhams has a new owner and a new chief executive; Gooding is now Gooding Christie's; the gaps are named, never padded.
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
THE WORLD'S SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS
35 specialists in seven sectors — RM Sotheby's and Mecum to Ritchie Bros., Elders, Zachys and Tattersalls — with every house's ownership as it stands in late 2026, its chief executive and its chair verified individually, its salerooms or their admitted absence, and its published figures where one exists. Zachys has its first non-family CEO; DeCaro hired its CEO from its biggest rival; Elders changed hands at the top on 1 October 2026; the gaps are named, never padded.
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
THE WORLD'S ART GALLERIES
35 galleries — from Gagosian, Pace, Hauser & Wirth and Zwirner to Kukje, Mendes Wood DM, kurimanzutto and The Third Line in Dubai — with every gallery's ownership as it stands in late 2026, its leadership under the titles it actually publishes, its programme, its artists, its rooms and its fairs; BLUM is leaving the gallery model itself, Marian Goodman's partners have succeeded her, and the gaps are named, never padded.
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
THE WORLD'S FRAME HOUSES
Eighteen houses verified one by one — from Heydenryk of Amsterdam (1845) and the Royal Warrant framers of St James's to the Florentine bottega that reframed a bomb-damaged Rubens — the ateliers the world's museums and collectors trust with the frame, plus the two scale giants honestly labelled as context.
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
THE WORLD'S APPRAISERS & VALUATION FIRMS
28 firms, divisions and professional bodies — from Winston Artory and Gurr Johns to the CBRE, JLL and Savills valuation arms, Kroll and the bodies whose initials make a number believable — with ownership and practice leadership verified to October 2026, credentials regimes, who appoints them, and the gaps named, never padded.
Five worldwide guides now stand in this department; more Auctions & Collecting guides will join in the months ahead.