At Sothebyâs Art Auction, Buyers Were Not Impressed
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The combination of estimates that were too high and material that was too familiar made Wednesday nightâs sale of Impressionist and modern art at Sothebyâs a rocky evening.
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Part of the Dutch national art collection featuring some 1,000 paintings, statues and other objects has gone on sale through Internet auction site eBay, officials said Friday.
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NEW YORK -- Despite turmoil in the financial markets, the art market shows no signs of softening.
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The thieves might not have known much about art, but they apparently knew what they liked: cash.
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The thieves might not have known much about art, but they apparently knew what they liked: cash.Comment
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Britain's prestigious Tate galleries are so short of money to buy new acquisitions that they have persuaded several leading artists to hand over their works for free to maintain the collections.
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A series of art auctions kick off in London on Monday with the prospect of collectors parting with up to $1 billion in a five-day spending spree.
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It's an art collection that could hold  as many as 80 works by Vincent van Gogh and nearly half-a-dozen  by Paul Cezanne, that is if the champions of a dead Dutch  furniture dealer are to be believed.
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Some mutual funds invest in stocks; others invest in bonds. Now a new breed of funds is offering the chance to own fine art.
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The renewed appetite for art as an investment is drawing attention to a small number of scholars who have been applying economics to this new asset class.
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eBay's latest auction trend may give the company a major headache.
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Despite the shaky state of world financial markets, there are still plenty of people willing to spend millions of dollars to put Impressionist, Modern or contemporary art on their walls.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - A woman who auctioned a painting that belonged to her grandmother, hoping to get a few thousand dollars to pay for her daughter's college tuition, was stunned when the picture fetched $600,000.
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Personal letters from people such as Napoleon and John Donne are being sold at auction.
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Remaking the Queens Museum of Art was not an easy job; whether or not it was a success will be up to New Yorkers, who can judge the restoration results on Saturday.
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A novice collector spent $236,000 during five frenzied days in February, but the heightened pitch of the art market means money is not enough.
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LONDON: Sold to collectors of modern art: the set of bar stools shaped like aspirins, towering medical cabinets, the DNA-themed sculptures and the molecule-inspired ashtrays.