Record Price Seen for Francis Bacon Painting
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A triptych by Francis Bacon, appearing at auction for the first time, is expected to set a record for a British or Irish work when it leads Christieâs Post War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London on Feb. 6. Held by a private collection, âTriptych 1974-77,â above, is the last in a series painted by Bacon (1909-1992) in response to the suicide of his lover, George Dyer, in their room in Paris. Baconâs âStudy From Innocent Xâ (1962) sold in May for a record $52.6 million.
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A 1,200-year-old Anglo-Saxon penny sold for &#36;409,000 Wednesday, setting what the auction house said was a new world record for the most expensive British coin.
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A painting by Francis Bacon sells for Â£14m at Christie's in London, a record for the artist.
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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 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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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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Portobello Road wall attracts hot bidding A work by guerrilla artist Banksy, which appeared in September last year outside a post-production company in Portobello Road, west London, has topped Â£200k on eBay:â¦
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A 10th century stone carving used for many years as a headstone to mark the grave of a British couple's cat sold for 175,000 pounds (250,000 euros, 330,000 dollars) at auction.
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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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A Francis Bacon painting sells for more than Â£26m at auction, but fails to set a new record for the artist.
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Makeup magnate and fine art enthusiast Ronald Lauder has paid 135 million dollars, the highest known price ever paid for a painting, for a 1907 Gustav Klimt portrait.
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The record price for a painting by contemporary British artist David Hockney was smashed again after one of his most familiar works fetched 2.6 million pounds (3.8 million euros, 4.8 million dollars) at a London auction.
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A hand-written, illustrated book of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record  1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on  Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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A three-canvas painting by Francis Bacon sold in London for 26.34 million pounds (35.24 million euros, 51.68 million dollars) Wednesday, but narrowly missed out on a record for the artist at auction.
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An 800-year-old copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, is sold for a world record price of Â£1,140,500 at a London auction.
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A Rembrandt painting with a price tag of 25.5m is due to go on sale in Sweden on Saturday.
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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.