Monet's Nympheas sells for Â£18.5m
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Claude Monet's impressionist masterpiece Nympheas is sold at auction in London for Â£18.5m
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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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A painting of waterlilies in his garden by French Impressionist Claude Monet sold on Tuesday for 18.5 million pounds, but failed to set a new auction record for the artist.
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Eleven works by cult British artist Banksy exceeded their estimates on Wednesday at a London auction, underlining his ongoing appeal to contemporary art collectors.
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A gold-encrusted sword which once belonged to Napoleon is auctioned for a record-breaking 4.8m euros.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Cult British graffiti artist Banksy secured his place among the country's art elite on Wednesday when one of his works fetched a record 102,000 pounds ($201,100) at a Sotheby's auction.
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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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Barbie in Midnight Red, dating from   1965, sold for a world record 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on Tuesday   as collectors from around the world gathered to bid for a piece   of a unique private collection of 4,000 Barbie family dolls.
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An auction of modern and Impressionist paintings becomes the most lucrative art auction held at Sotheby's.
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A love letter from Napoleon to his future wife, Josephine, is sold at auction in London for Â£276,000.
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A collection of watercolours by JMW Turner fetch Â£10.6m at an auction in London.
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Strong sales for Impressionist and modern works were evident this week at New York&#39;s premier auction houses, with Paul Gauguin&#39;s &quot;Maternite (II)&quot; bringing in $39.
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Stolen Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet works worth $160m (Â£82m) may have been found, Swiss media report.
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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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An anonymous private collector paid more than 1.5 million pounds ($3 million) on Thursday for a 17th-century portrait by painter Peter Lely of a semi-naked English royal mistress.
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A Norman Rockwell painting found behind a fake wall has sold for a record $15.4m (Â£7.9m).
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The iconic black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" sold for 410,000 pounds ($800,000) on Tuesday, around seven times its pre-sale estimate.