The point about it being too much of a coincidence that the Banksy piece was sold last, seems weak to me. Banksy was likely the most popularly known artist who

The point about it being too much of a coincidence that the Banksy piece was sold last, seems weak to me. Banksy was likely the most popularly known artist whose work was for sale, and it makes sense to me that they would put that last. A better analysis would have looked at how much all of the pieces sold for, as a proxy for fame. If lots of piece that sold earlier than Banksy's, sold for more, then that would be pretty suspicious. I'm guessing, though, that Banksy was the biggest name for sale, and I would not expect Sotheby's to put them for sale in a random order, but rather start with the lesser known artists/pieces first. Of course, I don't know the art auction world, and maybe it happens the other way, and you do the big names first, I don't know. But I also can't find out from reading this analysis. One thing I'm pretty sure of, is they don't just assign the order randomly.