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The man who would be auction king |
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Written by The Brisbane Times
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Saturday, 03 October 2009 |
If you wanted to buy an auction house, you couldn't aim higher than Sotheby's. As prestige brands go, only its arch rival, Christie's - owned by the French tycoon Francois Pinault, who paid $US1.2 billion for it in 1998 - compares.
The Sydney-born auctioneer Tim Goodman is no billionaire (yet) but has long coveted the Sotheby's name. Since his first encounter with the auction house as a 22-year-old doing work experience at its London office in 1974, he has dreamed of working with the multinational.
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