David N. Redden

David N. Redden joined Sotheby’s in 1974. Since then, he has been engaged in virtually every aspect and level of the auction world. His particular success in recent years has been with Sotheby’s major “Event” sales, including The Collection of Andy Warhol and Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor in the 1980’s, as well as with more recent sales, including the 1933 Double Eagle Coin, the Declaration of Independence, The O’Fallon Collection of American Indian Portraits by George Catlin, the Tyrannosaurus rex fossil “Sue”, the Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Property from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Four Battleflags of the American Revolution, and the celebrated Russian Space History sale.

During this same period, Mr. Redden also was instrumental in the private sales of the Forbes Collection of Imperial Fabergé and Gilbert Stuart’s George Washington (The Landsdowne Portrait). Fittingly, Mr. Redden sold George Washington’s own Order of the Cincinnati Medal this December for an unprecedented 5.3 million dollars. This record breaking price was ten times the previous record for a medal. Most recently, Mr. Redden sold a 1297 Magna Carta for $21.3 million dollars, also breaking the record for most expensive document ever sold at auction. Sotheby’s longest-serving auctioneer worldwide, Mr. Redden has been involved in some of the most historic auctions of the past thirty years.