Freud portrait breaks art record
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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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The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million(1.2 million pounds).
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Lucien Freud tops a list of favourite artists in a survey of the UK artistic community.
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Britain's Damien Hirst has been crowned the world's most expensive living artist at auction, lifting a title held for 18 years by America's Jasper Johns.
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A white gentleman's urinal by Marcel Duchamp is named the most influential modern art work of all time.
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A rare piece by renowned Chinese artist Xu Beihong has smashed the record for a Chinese oil painting, selling for HK$53.9 million (US$6.9 million) at a Christie's auction in Hong Kong on Sunday.
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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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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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The Metropolitan Museum's show reveals the portraitist's bountiful range. No doubt about it, he was and remains one of our greatest American painters.
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A record 1.2 million people flocked to see an exhibition of masterpieces from New York's Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) in Berlin, which closed its doors on Sunday after a triumphant seven-month run.
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A portrait by 16th century artist Raphael that went for $325 four decades ago sold at auction on Thursday for a record 18.5 million pounds ($37.3 million).
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Britain's Damien Hirst has been crowned the world's most expensive living artist at auction, lifting a title held for years by America's Jasper Johns.
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An art exhibition belonging to the wealthy grandson of a convicted Nazi industrialist has opened amid controversy in Germany.
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A portrait by Pablo Picasso of one of his best friends is on display in London ahead of its sale at auction.
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A surrealist drawing made an indeliable impression on a dinner guest 24 years ago.
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The famous painting isn&#39;t exactly the type most people want in their home. The image is too grim and full of existential angst.
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Artist David Hockney will unveil the largest picture of his career at London's Royal Academy.