Zooming through lockdown and breaking records along the way 

A T-rex skeleton named Stan that fetched $31.8m and a $28.6m Cezanne watercolour entered the history books this year

Stan, one of the largest T.rex skeletons ever discovered, sold for $31.8 million at Christie's.

All the ways the world changed permanently in 2020 are not yet clear. 

What is utterly transparent is that an industry largely driven by respect for the traditions and skills of the past has embraced the future in ways that would have been unimaginable before this pandemic struck.