Monet masterpiece sells for Â£18m
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Claude Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert doubles its estimated selling price at auction.
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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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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 1,000-year-old stone carving that spent years marking the grave of a couple&#39;s pet cat was sold at auction Friday for more than 200,000 pounds (US$380,000; euro280,000).
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The treasure that a New York City woman saved from the rubbish -- a stolen masterpiece by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo -- is expected to go for as much as $1 million (488,000 pounds) at auction next month.
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A copper figure from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery now belongs to the Metropolitan Museum, which purchased it for more than 12 times its estimate.
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A diamond-encrusted skull by British artist Damien Hirst sold on Thursday for 100 million dollars (75 million euros), a record price for work sold by a living artist, a London gallery announced.
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A historic painting of a meeting between Indian and British officials during the Raj is sold for a record price.
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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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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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A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to Â£100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery.
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A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million (50 million pounds), a spokeswoman for Hirst&#39;s London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.
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A rare 11th century rock crystal ewer,  misidentified as a 19th Century French claret jug, has sold for  220,000 pounds ($428,800) at auction, more than one thousand  times its pre-sale estimate, the Art Newspaper said on Monday.
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English graffiti artist Banksy's screen print of supermodel Kate Moss sold for $191,000 at a street art auction in London.
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Six Lowry paintings are expected to make about Â£3m when they are sold at auction.
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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 series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.