Sotheby’s launches evening sale dedicated to all things small

Small is beautiful, a mantra Sothebys is capitalising on with the launch of an evening sale in June dedicated to bijou works of art. The only criteria is that each lot must be reproducible at actual size in the sale cataloguein other words smaller than 29.6cm x 22.8cm.The brainchild of Allan Schwartzman, the chairman of Sothebys Fine Art Division, and Thomas Bompard, the head of Impressionist and Modern art evening sales in London, the auction will focus on 20th- and 21st-century sculptures, pa