Monet painting sells for &#36;36. 8 million
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A painting of water lilies by Claude Monet sold at a Sotheby's auction Tuesday for $36.8 million. It was the second major work by the impressionist artist to go under the hammer this week.
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A portrait of Florentine ruler Lorenzo de' Medici by Raphael sells for more than Â£18m at auction in London.
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A record number of original works by Banksy are expected to fetch up to Â£300,000 in total at a London sale.
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A Norman Rockwell painting found behind a fake wall has sold for a record $15.4m (Â£7.9m).
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NEW YORK -- A painting from Claude Monet&#39;s iconic series on London&#39;s House of Parliament has sold at auction for $20.1 million.
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A painting that hung for several years in a bank cafeteria has set a new record price for Australian aboriginal artwork, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday, confirming the ongoing boom for the genre.
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Four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet stolen from a Zurich museum are valued at more than 180 million Swiss francs (112 million euros, 164 million dollars), police said Monday.
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Bidders flipped their wigs Thursday at a Manhattan auction where one of pop art icon Andy Warhol&#039;s signature silver hairpieces sold for &#36;10,800.
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A 50-year-old painting by Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon set an auction record for his work on Thursday when it was sold at Christie's for 14.02 million pounds ($27.56 million).
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An online auction for a Banksy painting on a wall in west London closes with a final bid of Â£208,100.
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Strong sales for Impressionist and modern works were evident this week at New York&#39;s premier auction houses, with Paul Gauguin&#39;s &quot;Maternite (II)&quot; bringing in $39.
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A painting by Bollywood star Sushmita Sen is auctioned for a whopping $50,000, a price usually reserved for some of India's most popular artists.
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The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million(1.2 million pounds).
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DALLAS - An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.
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New records were set on Thursday for  works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian at Sotheby's auction  of Impressionist and modern art which achieved the biggest  total since 1990.
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A mysterious three-part painting that is viewed as a Francis Bacon masterpiece sold for $46.1 million Wednesday at a Christieâs auction in London.
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Art collectors have consigned artworks valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars for the November sales at New York's auction houses. Christie's and Sotheby's, the city's two most popular houses, say estimates for sales totals are the highest in almost 15 years.