For all Al Taubman’s fabulous success running Sotheby’s these last 17 years, he forgot one thing, writes Thomas Hoving: “the basic point about what Sotheby’s had to be. Honest. The opposite of caveat emptor. Clean. Never-a-scandal. Caesar’s wife. Or, to quote from a renowned 1928 court of appeals ruling, ‘Not honesty alone but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive.'” – Artnet