Dutch museums put their surplus art on eBay
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Part of the Dutch national art collection featuring some 1,000 paintings, statues and other objects has gone on sale through Internet auction site eBay, officials said Friday.
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Impressionist art still brings out the  big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on  Wednesday pulled in $92.5 million and showed that contemporary  art sales are where the action.
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Art theft may conjure up images of a suave movie villain creeping through a dark gallery &#151; or last year's bold daylight robbery of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" from a Norway museum. Most art heists, however, are far more subtle, involving forged documents, fake prints or smuggled cultural artifacts that slowly make their way into the hands of private owners or museums.
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The works at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum are intended to reflect Eli Broadâs penchant for collecting in depth. But the accumulation reads foremost as a display of pricey trophies.
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Online auctioneer eBay Inc...
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The Netherlands may have to give up paintings once acquired by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's collection if a state commission determines that a Jewish art dealer was forced to sell the 227 works, Dutch officials said Wednesday.
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Personal letters from people such as Napoleon and John Donne are being sold at auction.
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Two recovered Edvard Munch paintings have been returned to a museum with "hardly any damage", police say.
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Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet worth more than 91 million dollars have been stolen from a museum in Zurich, police said Monday.
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The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art offers works by three visual artists from the Netherlands, the least predictable (and most provocative) being video artist Erik van Lieshout.
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A museum in the Netherlands said the portrait was not by Rembrandt, and the provincial auction house in England was only advertising it as a work by one of his followers Â valued at $3,078.
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E-commerce giant eBay made another foray into the classifieds space, buying Dutch classifieds site Marktplaats.nl for around $290 million.
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It's an art collection that could hold  as many as 80 works by Vincent van Gogh and nearly half-a-dozen  by Paul Cezanne, that is if the champions of a dead Dutch  furniture dealer are to be believed.
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It's an art collection that could hold as many as 80 works by Vincent van Gogh and nearly half-a-dozen by Paul Cezanne, that is if the champions of a dead Dutch furniture dealer are to be believed.
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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.
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An art gallery which lost nine Banksy prints in two burglaries offers another piece by the guerilla artist as a reward.
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There's treasure on that there online car boot sale British Museum experts will monitor eBay antiquities sales and report illegal activity to the Met's Art and Antiques Unit in an arrangement announced today.â¦