Auctions of Impressionist/modern works bring strong prices
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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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Collection sold at Christie's sparks bidding in person, by phone and via internet.
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While many works may have fallen short of the auction house's expectations at Thursday's sale, there were still several high, record-breaking prices.
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Paintings by famous Impressionists worth more than $91m are stolen from a Zurich museum.
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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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At an auction of Kennedy memorabilia at Sotheby's on Tuesday, most lots had multiple bidders, and most of the prices soared to more than 10 times what anyone had expected.
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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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An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.
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Paintings by such luminary artists as Gauguin, Matisse and Monet will be auctioned next week by the city's top two auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, in separate impressionist and modern art sales.
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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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It entered the auction as an 18th century painting by an unknown artist worth a few hundred pounds, but emerged as a suspected early work by Renaissance master Titian possibly worth several million.
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NEW YORK - Bidding was fierce for a few big-name works at Sotheby&#39;s fall sale of Impressionist and modern art in New York Thursday evening, but others fell short of pre-sale estimates and about a fifth of the offerings went unsold.
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Personal letters from people such as Napoleon and John Donne are being sold at auction.
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A painting of water lilies by Claude Monet sold at a Sotheby's auction Tuesday for $36.8 million. It was the second major work by the impressionist artist to go under the hammer this week.
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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. set six artist records at its auction last night of Impressionist and Modern artwork, as a Paul Gauguin painting fetched $39.
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An auction of 40 paintings by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano fetches more than Â£2.5m during fierce bidding.
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MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Russian art is gathering international attention and hefty price tags as the country's elite buy their motherland's masterpieces away from home.