16 Facts About David Redden

David Redden spent his entire career, from 1974 to 2016, with Sotheby's where he was a vice-chairman and was Sotheby's longest serving auctioneer.

David Redden has chaired the boards of several American and British preservation and educational organizations.

David Redden later graduated from the Art History program at Wesleyan University, where he participated in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.

David Redden began his auction career as a catalog trainee at Sotheby's in 1974.

David Redden initially joined the company in order to learn more about his passion, collecting.

David Redden later became credited with developing the Internet strategy for Sotheby's in the late 1990s when he became chairman of Sothebys.

David Redden is best known as the manager and auctioneer for many of Sotheby's most celebrated live auctions.

David Redden served as a vice-chairman of Sotheby's from February 2000 to 2016, when he retired.

David Redden was the Worldwide Chairman of Sotheby's Books and Manuscripts.

Privately, David Redden sold Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington to the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the papers of Martin Luther King Jr.

David Redden was involved in the discovery of the missing first half on the manuscript for Huckleberry Finn.

David Redden, who had no prior knowledge of the crime, was the first staff member at either Christie's or Sotheby's to speak out publicly decrying the criminal activities of the leadership of the two firms.

The physical decline has prevented David Redden from completing the editing of his very extensive Private Diary of a Sotheby's Auctioneer.

In 1978 David Redden married Jeannette Andreasen, currently a Commissioner of the Palisades Interstate Park.

David Redden died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, on May 11,2024, at the age of 75.

David Redden was diagnosed nine years prior to his death.