Hirst is most expensive living artist
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Britain's Damien Hirst has been crowned the world's most expensive living artist at auction, lifting a title held for 18 years by America's Jasper Johns.
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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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Damien Hirst, former BritArt bad boy whose works infuriate and inspire in equal measure, did it again on Friday with a diamond-encrusted platinum cast of a human skull priced at a cool 50 million pounds.
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Damien Hirst, the superstar British  artist best known for his pickled displays of large animal  corpses, launched his controversial work in Russia's capital on  Monday at a private viewing with a difference.
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Prices for Russian works of art set a  series of new records at auctions in London this week as rich  Russians flexed their financial muscles.
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Multi-millionaire English artist Damien Hirst said on Thursday he was donating four major works to Britain's Tate Gallery, including a sliced and pickled cow and calf.
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Britart superstar Damien Hirst, famed for his pickled sharks and sheep, is taking his "New Religion" to church. With the skull of a child cast in silver and a heart pierced with syringes and razor blades, one of the most controversial artists is staging his provocative show next month at an Anglican church in London.
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British artist Damien Hirst's latest solo show "Beyond Belief" at London's White Cube gallery, which closes this weekend, has taken $250 million in sales in just five weeks, the gallery said on Friday.
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A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million, a spokeswoman for Hirst's London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.
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New records were set on Thursday for  works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian at Sotheby's auction  of Impressionist and modern art which achieved the biggest  total since 1990.
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Makeup magnate and fine art enthusiast Ronald Lauder has paid 135 million dollars, the highest known price ever paid for a painting, for a 1907 Gustav Klimt portrait.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britart superstar Damien Hirst, famed for his pickled sharks and sheep, is taking his "New Religion" to church.
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The sale broke the artistâs record and underlined the enduring market influence of the workâs latest owner, the collector Charles Saatchi.
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Art from the home of murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace is up for auction.
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A 1946 painting by LS Lowry is sold for the highest price paid for the artist at an auction.
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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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Multi-millionaire English artist Damien  Hirst said on Thursday he was donating four major works to  Britain's Tate Gallery, including a sliced and pickled cow and  calf.