Recovered Artworks Heading to Auction
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About 170 old master paintings returned to the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker, a prominent Dutch dealer who fled Amsterdam in 1940, are to be offered at Christieâs.
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A long-lost painting by Swedish master Carl Larsson, tucked away in a private collection in France for more than a century, sold for $730,000 at a Stockholm auction Tuesday.
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A previously unknown painting by El  Greco, found by chance in an envelope in a flat in Spain, is  finally returning home after being bought by the artist's  native island of Crete.
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LOS ANGELES: US authorities have seized a long-lost Picasso worth about $US10million ($13.4million) that was looted by Nazis during World War II.
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OSLO -- Two years after the brazen daylight theft of national artistic treasures from a museum, police announced yesterday they recovered the Edvard Munch masterpieces ``The Scream" and ``Madonna."
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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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Stolen Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet works worth $160m (Â£82m) may have been found, Swiss media report.
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Four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet stolen from a Zurich museum are valued at more than 180 million Swiss francs (112 million euros, 164 million dollars), police said Monday.
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Personal letters from people such as Napoleon and John Donne are being sold at auction.
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Police in Switzerland have recovered artworks stolen earlier this month in a daring heist at a Zurich museum, Geneva police said Tuesday.
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Descendants of two pre-Russian Revolution art collectors are seeking compensation from Moscow for confiscated masterpieces going on display in a controversial London exhibition, they told AFP Tuesday.
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A seminal set of vitrines by Joseph Beuys, long desired by the museum, previously belonged to a collector and friend of the artist.
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More than 100 million pounds worth of impressionist and modern art changed hands Monday evening at a Christie's auction that kicked off a week packed with sales.
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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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Lovers of Kennedy lore will get a rare  chance at owning some common possessions of late President John  F. Kennedy and his family in an auction of art, furniture and  other effects from their homes.
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A painting stolen 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at auction.
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An Andy Warhol painting stolen from a Manhattan art gallery a decade ago has resurfaced at Christie's auction house, and on Tuesday the gallery sued to have it returned.