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Star-Studded Doc on Auction Icon Simon de Pury Heads to Cannes | Artnet News

Artnet News·Vittoria Benzine·about 1 month ago
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This spring’s edition of the storied Cannes Film Market will offer a long overdue documentary exploring the five-decade career of larger-than-life Swiss auctioneer and art advisor Simon de Pury. The new feature length film is titled “The Hammer”—which also happens to be the name of de Pury’s long-running Artnet News column . De Pury is no stranger to show business. The former Sotheby’s chairman–turned Phillips chief auctioneer has spent his life around celebrities. BBC Four made a mini-documentary about him, too, in 2010. Plus, who could forget de Pury’s stint alongside critic Jerry Saltz, actress China Chow, and gallerist Bill Powers on “Work of Art”, Bravo ’s reality T.V. competition, that 2010s gem?…

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