Warhol's silver wig sells for &#36;10,800
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Bidders flipped their wigs Thursday at a Manhattan auction where one of pop art icon Andy Warhol&#039;s signature silver hairpieces sold for &#36;10,800.
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A portrait of Florentine ruler Lorenzo de' Medici by Raphael sells for more than Â£18m at auction.
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A set of pearls once belonging to Marie Antoinette and taken to Britain by a friend for safekeeping will go on sale in December, and are expected to fetch up to $800,000.
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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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The gift of more than $10 million, from a yet unnamed corporation, is likely to stir some excitement in the art world.
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Someone actually paid $28,000 (plus $9.95 shipping and handling) on eBay for a 10-year-old, framed grilled cheese sandwich said by its seller, Diane Duyser of Florida, to have the image 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 $92.5 million and showed that contemporary  art sales are where the action.
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A collection of works by artists including Henri Matisse sell for a total cost of $395m in New York.
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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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It is no secret that the art market has become drunk with money lately, but $100 million for a diamond skull by the artist Damien Hirst? Even Russian oligarchs and hedge-fund billionaires might think twice.
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An auction of items belonged to the late French President Francois Mitterrand, including his famous black felt hat, raised nearly $220,000 for his widow's charity.
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An $800 tab raises eyebrows as New York's stylists wage a price war Â upward.
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A nude portrait of pregnant supermodel  Kate Moss by one of Britain's most renowned artists, Lucian  Freud, sold for 3.93 million pounds ($7.32 million) at a London  auction on Wednesday.
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A Norman Rockwell painting found behind a fake wall sells for a record $15.4m (Â£7.9m) at auction.
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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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Andy Warhol's 1963 painting Mustard Race Riot, about civil rights protests, sells for $15.1m (Â£8.1m).
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The total worth of the paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and CÃ©zanne is estimated at $163 million.