Bacon portrait breaks sale record
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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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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. set six artist records at its auction last night of Impressionist and Modern artwork, as a Paul Gauguin painting fetched $39.
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A stainless steel cabinet containing 6,136 handcrafted and painted pills has set a record for the highest price paid at auction for a work by living artist, an auctioneer said.
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Claude Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert doubles its estimated selling price at auction.
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A portrait by 16th century artist Raphael that went for $325 four decades ago sold at auction on Thursday for a record 18.5 million pounds ($37.3 million).
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NEW YORK, Nov. 4 -- Records were set Thursday for works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian as Sotheby&#39;s opened its two-day auction of impressionist and modern art.
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A rare watercolour painting by sculpture Modigliani sells for Â£423,000 at an auction in London.
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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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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 closeout retailer reports record Black Friday sales.
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A set of paintings by Jack Vettriano has fetched more than Â£1m at auction. Bluebird at Bonneville, one of seven originally commissioned by Sir Terence Conran, went for Â£468,000 - the second-highest price for a Vettriano after the Singing Butler sold for Â£744,500 in 2004
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Collectors have consigned hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art for the November sales in New York.
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A painting by Joan Miro sold for a world record figure for the Spanish artist&#39;s work at the start of a bumper series of high-value art sales at Christie&#39;s in London, the auctioneer said Tuesday.
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A rare piece by renowned Chinese artist Xu Beihong has smashed the record for a Chinese oil painting, selling for HK$53.9 million (US$6.9 million) at a Christie's auction in Hong Kong on Sunday.
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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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A recently discovered painting by Sir Winston Churchill is expected to sell for Â£250,000 at auction.
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The market for contemporary and post-war art is continuing apace as evidenced by a healthy result, and in particular another record for Mark Rothko, at Sotheby's on Tuesday.