Tobias Meyer and Christopher Burge are the chief auctioneers at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, respectively. “Meyer, who is also Sotheby’s worldwide head of contemporary art, is German, in his early 40s, and looks like a Helmut Lang model. He is more of a celebrity outside of the auction world than Mr. Burge, having been the subject of a New Yorker profile, which described, among other things, his “sculptural” head, his Savile Row suits, and the dramatically designed apartment.”