Lucian Freud portrait of Kate Moss, nude and pregnant, goes on sale
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A portrait of the British super-model Kate Moss, heavily pregnant and looking uncharacteristically unglamorous, will be sold at auction next February, Christie's auction house said.
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A handwritten chapter of Oscar Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," written by the author at the behest of his publishers and including the scandalous visit of the title character to an opium den, has been sold for &#36;132,000.
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Lindsay Lohan is following in the footsteps of the most famous blond bombshell of them all Â Marilyn Monroe. In the issue of New York magazine on sale Monday, the 21-year-old star of "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday" poses nude for photographer Bert Stern in a recreation of one of Monroe's most famous photo shoots, done shortly before she died.
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The queen's possessions are going up for public auction -- the so-called Queen of Mean, the late real estate billionaire Leona Helmsley, that is.
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A work by artist Damien Hirst, famed for preserving a shark in formaldehyde, on Thursday became the most expensive by a living artist ever sold at auction, the auctioneers said.
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PARIS -- Maybe they should call it the ``Mama Lisa." Researchers studying 3-D images of the ``Mona Lisa" say she was probably either pregnant or had just given birth when she sat for Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century masterpiece. The clue was something she wore.
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A painting attributed to Adolf   Hitler fetched 10,500 pounds ($20,000) at auction in Britain on   Tuesday, despite art experts' doubts that the watercolors on   sale were the work of the Nazi leader.
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters Life!) - In what could be the most valuable sale they have ever staged in Europe, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday they expect to raise more than 100 million pounds ($195 million) from an Impressionists' auction next week.
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Possessions belonging to singer and actress Cher are sold at a sale in Los Angeles.
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Claude Monet's 1904 masterpiece Nympheas is expected to fetch up to Â£15m when it goes under the hammer.
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Supermodel Kate Moss has been unveiled as the latest top star on show at the famous Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in London.
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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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One of Vincent van Gogh's final landscapes, "The Fields," will be auctioned in New York in November, a British newspaper reported Saturday.
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A painting by Winston Churchill, given by Britain's World War Two leader to U.S. President Harry Truman, is expected to fetch up to 500,000 pounds ($1 million) at auction in December.
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In a media marketplace heavy on celebrity news, stories are interesting, but pictures reign supreme. Want proof? Just look at the price tags.
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A portrait of the super-model Kate Moss, heavily pregnant and looking uncharacteristically unglamorous, will be sold at auction next February, Christie's auction house said.
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A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was looted by Nazis during World War II reportedly sells for a record $135m.