Record price for Banksy bomb art
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A Banksy painting showing boules players tossing bombs across a lawn sells for Â£102,000 in London.
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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 collection of artworks owned by John Paul Getty II sell for a total of Â£1.7m at Christie's in London.
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Aspirin-styled bar stools, medical cabinets and other fittings from artist Damien Hirst&#39;s restaurant Pharmacy have sold for a record Â£11.
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Christie's sold a Francis Bacon triptych for 26.3 million pounds ($51.7 million) late on Wednesday, the highest price paid at a European auction for a post-war work, and narrowly short of the artist's record.
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A collection of works by artists including Henri Matisse sell for a total cost of $395m in New York.
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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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An artist charges Â£35,000 for his unusual artwork featuring the remains of a fox and hare killed on the road.
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The owners of a Banksy mural in Bristol put it up for sale and include their house as part of the deal.
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$39.2 million for a Gauguin. $20.1 million for a Monet. The cost of impressionist and modern art continues to go up as evidenced by sales at two recent auctions by Sotheby&#39;s and Christie&#39;s.
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Nearly two hours of relentless bidding for contemporary art at Christie's Rockefeller Center salesroom resulted in a sale total of $92.4 million.
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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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A hand-written, illustrated book of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record  1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on  Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Ten original works by English graffiti artist Banksy, including an image of Lenin on roller skates and an elephant carrying a large bomb, are predicted to fetch up to $600,000 Wednesday at an auction.
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A painting has sold for 1,700 times its maximum reserve price as the winning bidder believed it to be a self-portrait by 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt, British media reported on Saturday.
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The total worth of the paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and CÃ©zanne was estimated at $163 million.