Early Vettriano works auctioned
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The first major paintings to have been commissioned from Jack Vettriano appear at auction.
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A 10th century stone carving used for many years as a headstone to mark the grave of a British couple's cat sold for 175,000 pounds (250,000 euros, 330,000 dollars) at auction.
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A record number of original works by Banksy are expected to fetch up to Â£300,000 in total at a London sale.
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A painting stolen more than 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at an auction.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the new (if temporary) home of âArtemis and the Stag,â below, the 2,000-year-old classical bronze sculpture that sold last year for a record $28.6 million at a Sothebyâs auction in New York. The sculpture, sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo to an unidentified private collector for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture or antiquity at auction, will be on view for six months in the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court (the central atrium in the new Greek and Roman Galleries).
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What would you bid for these two auctioneers?
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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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Four of five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were relinquished by Austria this year after a long legal battle are to be auctioned on Nov. 8 at ChristieÂs.
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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art  said on Wednesday it had bought a rare, and tiny, early  Renaissance Italian masterpiece in what could be the most  expensive purchase in the Met's history.
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A collection of work by artist L S Lowry, valued at half a million pounds, is to go on sale in Birmingham.
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In arrivo nuovi fondi per il Museo delle Arti romano
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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A Vincenzo Maria Pellegrini painting was donated to Bank of Valletta. The presentation of the painting was made by Gabriel A. Pellegrini to BOV Chairman, Joseph F X Zahra.
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One art lover in Sweden paid 1,000 times over the starting bid for a painting billed as the work of a student of Peter Paul Rubens after learning the Flemish baroque master may have painted it himself.
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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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Pray or pay. At dozens of Italian churches struggling to preserve art treasures from Byzantine mosaics to Baroque paintings, that is the choice many visitors must make.
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A portrait of Florentine ruler Lorenzo de' Medici by Raphael sells for more than Â£18m at auction.