Painting of Kate Moss in Christie's Shop Window
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A painting of naked and pregnant supermodel Kate Moss by one of Britain's greatest living artists, Lucian Freud, was unveiled Friday at the London auctioneers Christie's.
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A previously unknown painting by El  Greco, found by chance in an envelope in a flat in Spain, is  finally returning home after being bought by the artist's  native island of Crete.
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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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The Badminton Cabinet, one of the finest  pieces of furniture in Britain, was sold for 19 million pounds  to become the most expensive non-pictorial work of art ever  sold at auction, Christie's announced on Thursday.
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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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A model of the Starship Enterprise sells for more than Â£300,000 at Christie's in New York.
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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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Actress Elizabeth Taylor announced Wednesday that all future sales of her jewelry, artwork, clothing, furniture and memorabilia will be through Christie's, which has already auctioned some of her possessions including the dress she wore to the 1969 Academy Awards.
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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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Paintings by such luminary artists as Gauguin, Matisse and Monet will be auctioned next week by the city's top two auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, in separate impressionist and modern art sales.
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Christie's sold a Francis Bacon triptych for 26.3 million pounds ($51.7 million) late on Wednesday, the highest price paid at a European auction for a post-war work, and narrowly short of the artist's record.
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Christie's is eyeing to break its HK$1.2 billion ($154.2 million) Asia sales record next week when it auctions artworks and jewelry from a region that is all the rage with wealthy international and Chinese buyers.
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A portrait of the super-model Kate Moss, heavily pregnant and looking uncharacteristically unglamorous, will be sold at auction next February, Christie's auction house said.
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Elizabeth Gibson found a painting by Rufino Tamayo  on the street four years ago.  Said to be worth about $1 million, it is heading for the auction block next month.
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A painting attributed to Adolf   Hitler fetched 10,500 pounds ($20,000) at auction in Britain on   Tuesday, despite art experts' doubts that the watercolors on   sale were the work of the Nazi leader.
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Dame Elizabeth Taylor gives auction house Christie's exclusive rights to sales of her possessions.
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The Badminton Cabinet, one of the finest pieces of furniture in Britain, was sold for 19 million pounds to become the most expensive non-pictorial work of art ever sold at auction, Christie's announced on Thursday.