Freud portrait breaks art record
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A portrait by Lucian Freud broke the record for a living European artist when it sold for Â£7.8m.
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Albanian artist Saimir Strati has hammered tens of thousands of nails into a wooden board over the past 24 days to create a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci and the world's biggest nail mosaic.
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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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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 record 1.7 million people visited Tate Britain last year, the museum reveals.
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The black and white photograph from pre-war Germany shows an affluent and important banker sitting beneath one of the important paintings in his treasured collection of art.
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A record 1.2 million people flocked to see an exhibition of masterpieces from New York's Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) in Berlin, which closed its doors on Sunday after a triumphant seven-month run.
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A spectacular exhibition of contemporary art, which opened in Berlin on Tuesday amid Jewish protests, drew accusations that its billionaire owner was exploiting art to redeem his family's Nazi past.
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An art exhibition belonging to the wealthy grandson of a convicted Nazi industrialist has opened amid controversy in Germany.
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Artist Tomma Abts becomes the first woman painter to win the Turner Prize in its 22-year history.
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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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A Turner painting which sold for a record Â£5.8m at auction earlier this year is barred from going abroad.
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A white gentleman's urinal by Marcel Duchamp is named the most influential modern art work of all time.
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Forget the soiled bedsheets and pickled animals, British art has taken another outrageous turn in an example of the unspeakable swallowing the uneatable.
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Politics and art donât always mix well, but the combination has yielded a rare chance for Hong Kong residents and visitors to see what is arguably Chinaâs most famous painting.
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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 surrealist drawing made an indeliable impression on a dinner guest 24 years ago.