Christie&#39;s Sells $128 Mln of Art in New York Auction
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Christie&#39;s International started New York&#39;s fall art-auction season by selling $128 million of Impressionist and Modern art, its highest such tally in four years.
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Flanked by gun-toting guards and security cameras, one of the few Rembrandt paintings not in a museum or private collection goes on public display Saturday and on sale with an asking price of $46 million.
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A painting by Francis Bacon sells for Â£14m at Christie's in London, a record for the artist.
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An $8 million Jean-Michel Basquiat painting whose last known owner was a bankrupt Brazilian banker has been found in a Manhattan warehouse, The Associated Press reported. Federal prosecutors filed papers seeking to seize the 1982 work, âHannibal,â which was valued at $100 on a customs declaration form when it arrived by courier from London at Kennedy Airport after apparently being smuggled out of Brazil. Prosecutors are seeking to help Brazilian authorities claim the painting, whose last known owner was Edemar Cid Ferreira, former owner of Banco Santos and one of Brazilâs foremost art collectors. The bank went bankrupt in 2005, leaving debts of more than $1 billion. Mr. Ferreira was convicted of money laundering and bank fraud, and sentenced to 21 years in prison; a Brazilian court ordered seizure of $20 million to $30 million worth of his art, saying it was bought with proceeds of illegal schemes, but âHannibalâ was missing.
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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 rediscovered masterpiece by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele was to go under sale in a highly anticipated auction Tuesday, a highlight of a bumper week in the buoyant London art market.
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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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The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million.
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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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A Gibson cherry-red SG Standard guitar used by George Harrison and John Lennon sold for US$567,500 at a Christie&#39;s auction on Friday.
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The heirs of murdered Italian designer  Gianni Versace are hoping to raise as much as $17 million from  the sale of art by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein from his New  York home, Sotheby's said on Thursday.
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The Badminton Cabinet, one of the finest pieces of furniture in Britain, was sold for 19 million pounds to become the most expensive non-pictorial work of art ever sold at auction, Christie's announced on Thursday.
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Trekkies will be setting their phasers  to &quot;bid&quot; this fall when Christie&#039;s holds the first official  studio auction of memorabilia from all five &quot;Star Trek&quot;  television series and 10 movie spinoffs.
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A newly discovered story by the 20th century literary giant Ernest Hemingway will be auctioned at Christie's in New York in December, with the proviso that it not be published -- at least for now.
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In New York, the auction of Johnny and June Cash&#39;s belongings brought more than twice the pre-sale estimate, bringing in nearly $4 million.
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A 50-year-old painting by Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon set an auction record for his work on Thursday when it was sold at Christie's for 14.02 million pounds ($27.56 million).
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An online auction for a Banksy painting on a wall in west London closes with a final bid of Â£208,100.