total sales of Sotheby's amounted to approximately eight billion U.S. dollars, the highest figure ever reported by the company.
Online auction sales of Sotheby's declined in 2022 over the previous year. After rising sharply in the first two years of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, peaking at 800 million U.S. dollars in 2021, the auction house's online sales generated around 580 million U.S. dollars in 2022. That year, Total online auction sales of Sotheby's worldwide from 2015 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars)
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Total online auction sales of Sotheby's worldwide from 2015 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars) [Graph], Statista, April 18, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/999373/sotheby-s-auction-house-online-sales/