Hockney canvas makes a record 'splash' at London auction
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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 rare watercolour painting by sculpture Modigliani sells for Â£423,000 at an auction in London.
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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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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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Artwork attributed to Adolf Hitler is auctioned in England for higher prices than expected.
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A view of the River Thames painted by Claude Monet sold for almost $36 million at auction Monday, kicking off a week of big-budget sales on the London art market.
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Britain&#39;s Damien Hirst has been crowned  the world&#39;s most expensive living artist at auction, lifting a  title held for 18 years by America&#39;s Jasper Johns.
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New records were set on Thursday for works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian at Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and modern art which achieved the biggest total since 1990.
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A painting by John Singer Sargent sells for $23.5m (Â£12.1m), setting a new auction record for the artist.
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More than 100 million pounds worth of impressionist and modern art changed hands Monday evening at a Christie's auction that kicked off a week packed with sales.
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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 fund-raising drive secures one of Turner's finest watercolours for the UK.
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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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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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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.
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A painting by Francis Bacon, given to London's Royal College of Art in return for rent, is expected to fetch up to Â£9m at auction.
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Nearly two hours of relentless bidding for contemporary art at Christie's Rockefeller Center salesroom resulted in a sale total of $92.4 million.