El Greco Painting in an Envelope Comes to Auction
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An unknown painting by old master El  Greco, discovered by chance in a brown envelope in a flat in  Spain, will be offered for sale in December with a starting  price of 600,000 pounds ($1.1 million).
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A collection of Maria Callas memorabilia from her husband's estate, including letters, photographs and musical scores, will be auctioned later this year.
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A bid from GoldenPalace.com was the winning bid for a eBay auction selling a decade-old cheese sandwich, sn reported. It is claimed that the sandwich has a likeness of the Virgin Mary on it.
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Impressionist art still brings out the big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on Wednesday pulled in &#36;92.5 million and showed that contemporary art sales are where the action.
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Collection sold at Christie's sparks bidding in person, by phone and via internet.
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A TEN-YEAR-OLD grilled cheese sandwich a Florida woman says bears the image of the Virgin Mary was back on eBay today after the internet auction house initially cancelled bids that went up to $US22,000 ($28,472).
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The owner of the Elvis Is Alive Museum, a fading outpost of Americana, is auctioning the museumâs contents on eBay.
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A love letter from Napoleon to his future wife, Josephine, is sold at auction in London for Â£276,000.
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A seminal set of vitrines by Joseph Beuys, long desired by the museum, previously belonged to a collector and friend of the artist.
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A painting attributed to cult graffiti  artist Banksy fetched more than 200,000 pounds ($391,000) in an  online auction on Monday. Now the lucky owner will just have to  work out how to get it home.
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Four of five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were relinquished by Austria this year after a long legal battle are to be auctioned on Nov. 8 at ChristieÂs.
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A long-lost painting by Swedish master Carl Larsson, tucked away in a private collection in France for more than a century, sold for $730,000 at a Stockholm auction Tuesday.
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It entered the auction as an 18th century painting by an unknown artist worth a few hundred pounds, but emerged as a suspected early work by Renaissance master Titian possibly worth several million.
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A rediscovered El Greco painting is bought by the Greek island of Crete, the birthplace of the artist.
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A 1946 painting by L S Lowry is sold for the highest price ever paid for the artist at auction.
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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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A painting has sold for 1,700 times its maximum reserve price as the winning bidder believed it to be a self-portrait by 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt, British media reported on Saturday.