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Sotheby’s by JJ Adams

Featured in Vogue & GQ and having worked alongside clients like Rolls Royce and Bang & Olufsen, JJ Adams is rapidly becoming one of the UK’s most talked about and collectible artists. He is bold and confident in style often completely transforming celebrity images or iconic landmarks with his own inimitable edge and blurring the lines between new media, pop, fine art, digital art and photography.

Adams uses a range of new and mixed media in his work from spray painting to hand painting acrylics, stenciling, screen printing, collage and digital composite and matte painting as well as photography.

“The key is not to take yourself or your work too seriously,  just to have fun creating and experiment and ignore criticism and keep your feet on the ground, otherwise it gets too complicated and it ruins your creativity, I create artwork for other people to enjoy and I don’t attempt to save the world with a message that I don’t truly believe. I donate to charities instead through the sale of my artwork who really do know how to make a difference”

Sotheby’s is a British-founded American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City. It is one of the world’s largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewelry, real estate, and collectibles. Its operation is divided into three segments: auction, finance, and dealer with services ranging from corporate art services to private sales. It has 80 locations in 40 countries but maintains a significant presence in the UK. Its UK operation is headed by Lord Dalmeny. As of December 2011, the company had 1,713 employees worldwide. It is the world’s largest art business, with global sales in 2011 totalling $5.8 billion.

Sotheby’s was established on 11 March 1744 in London and is named after one of its cofounders, John Sotheby. It is the world’s fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation after Uppsala Auktionskammare, which was established in 1731. The American holding company was initially incorporated in August 1983 in Michigan. In June 2006, Sotheby’s Holdings, Inc. reincorporated in the State of Delaware and was renamed Sotheby’s. In July 2016, Chinese insurance company Taikang Life became Sotheby’s largest shareholder. In June 2019, Sotheby’s announced that it was being acquired by French-Israeli businessman Patrick Drahi at a 61% market premium.