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INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE. EXCEPTIONAL ASSETS.
Tuesday 20 October 2026 | Updated London
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The Luxury Assets Briefing

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Ask Aurelia about Luxury Assets News reporting and analysis. She answers from our published coverage and points you to the underlying article.

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Aurelia · Editorial host

Briefing on: Benetti 38.1m Charisma asks €10.95m after another €1m price cut

Aurelia is ready to brief you. Choose a question or ask your own.

Editorial context only. Not investment, legal, tax, valuation, buying or selling advice.

Today’s briefing

  1. Fine Art · Curated briefing

    Picasso ‘Femme nue et homme au fanion’ offered at US$15m to US$20m on 18 November

    Sotheby’s is selling four late Picasso works from one European family with a combined estimate of US$30m to US$42m, two of them out of public view since 1970.

  2. Yachting · Independent editorial

    Benetti 38.1m Charisma asks €10.95m after another €1m price cut

    The 2015 yacht was listed at €12.9m in February 2025, after a €990,000 cut, and took an earlier €1m reduction in March this year.

  3. Fine Art · Independent editorial

    Sotheby’s offers a Julio-Claudian marble emperor torso at US$8m to US$12m on 21 October

    The torso carries the top estimate in a 48-lot evening sale, part of four New York sales on 21, 22 and 23 October that Sotheby’s estimates will realise in excess of US$60m.

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