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FILE - This is a Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, file photo of Sotheby's auction house staff as they pose for photographers with Austrian artist Gustav Klimt's "Bauerngarten (Blumengarten)" during a photocall at their premises in London. The exuberant floral landscape by Gustav Klimt has sold at auction for almost 48 million pounds _ the third-highest price ever paid for an artwork in Europe. "Bauerngarten (Flower Garden)" went under the hammer for 47.9 million ($59.3 million) at Sotheby's in London. Sotheby's Europe chairwoman Helena Newman said the painting was "one of the artist's greatest masterpieces ever to come to auction." (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

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Javier Munoz, left, who plays Alexander Hamilton in the enormously popular Broadway hip-hop musical "Hamilton," laughs with the show's set designer David Korins as they read a letter from Hamilton to an unnamed recipient, possibly Jeremiah Wadsworth, about the 1796 presidential election, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at Sotheby's auction house in New York. This and a trove of artifacts related to Alexander Hamilton, including love letters to his wife, Eliza, will be offered up for auction at Sotheby's Jan. 18, part of "Americana week." Munoz says holding and reading Hamilton's private thoughts about everything from his love life to war in America will have a deep effect on his Broadway performance. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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A model shows 'The Sky Blue Diamond' ring at the auction house Sotheby's in London, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. The mesmerizing and rare vivid blue diamond weighs 8.01 carats, mounted by Cartier, will be on auction on Nov. 16, 2017 with an estimate of 15-25 million dollars (12-20 million pounds, 13.5-22.5 million euro). (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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This undated photo provided by Sotheby's in New York shows the first ever printing of the Talmud in Venice in the 1520s. It will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York on Dec. 22, 2015. It is part of what experts consider the world’s most important private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts, collected by a London diamond dealer. (Sotheby's via AP)

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This undated photo provided by Sotheby's in New York shows a copy of a Hebrew Bible from 1189 - the only surviving, dated Hebrew manuscript written before the Jews were expelled from England in 1290. It will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York on Dec. 22, 2015. (Sotheby's via AP)

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Gabriela Palmieri: Photo Courtesy Sotheby's

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This undated image provided by Sotheby's shows a Roy Lichtenstein painting titled “The Ring (Engagement),” to be sold, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, by Sotheby’s. (Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/Sotheby's via AP)

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This undated file photo provided by Sotheby's shows the popular Norman Rockwell masterpiece "Saying Grace." (AP Photo/Sotheby's, File)

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Norman Lear, left, with the rare copy of the Declaration of Independence that he and David Hayden, right, purchased through a Sotheby's online auction for $8.14 million in 2000. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)

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This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s shows an untitled ink drawing by John Lennon of a boy and six birds. The drawing is part of an 89-piece collection of Lennon’s original whimsical drawings, poems and prose for his books “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works” that will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Sotheby's, John Lennon)

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This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s shows an untitled ink drawing by John Lennon of a seated man and floating creature. The drawing is part of an 89-piece collection of Lennon’s original whimsical drawings, poems and prose for his books “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works” that will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Sotheby's, John Lennon)

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FILE – In this May 2, 2014 file photo, a woman browses various impressionistic paintings during a preview exhibition for Sotheby's Spring Evening Sale of impressionistic and modern art, in New York. The spring auction season in New York began Tuesday at Christie's and shifts to Sotheby's Wednesday May 7, 2014, the second major art auction in the city in two days, with artworks that include four sculptures and an oil painting by Giacometti among the items up for bid.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)