Modern art auction fetches $195m
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Gauguin and Modigliani help an auction reach the highest total for an impressionist and modern art sale since 1990.
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MoMA will raise the basic price of admission an eye-opening 67 percent, to $20, making the Modern the most expensive major art museum in the United States.
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A collection of items belonging to the late opera star Maria Callas fetches 1.76m Euros (Â£1.26m) at auction.
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Despite the shaky state of world financial markets, there are still plenty of people willing to spend millions of dollars to put Impressionist, Modern or contemporary art on their walls.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Duccio, which was purchased for more than $45 million, is a quiet, serious gem that responsibly fills a gap in the museum's collection.
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An auction of items from Johnny Cash&#39;s estate took in $1.24 million on its first day as collectors paid as much as 15 times the expected amount for the late country music star&#39;s belongings.
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How did the Museum of Modern Art manage to drum up $858 million in the middle of a recession?
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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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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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An art collection belonging to the late Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich has been sold to a private buyer for substantially more than $40 million, Sotheby's auction house said Monday.
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The record price for a painting by contemporary British artist David Hockney was smashed again after one of his most familiar works fetched 2.6 million pounds (3.8 million euros, 4.8 million dollars) at a London auction.
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A mysterious three-part painting that is viewed as a Francis Bacon masterpiece sold for $46.1 million Wednesday at a Christieâs auction in London.
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The newly donated collection of Abstract Expressionist paintings at the Metropolitan Museum is largely a delight from beginning to end.
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English graffiti artist Banksy's screen print of supermodel Kate Moss sold for $191,000 at a street art auction in London.
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A portrait of Florentine ruler Lorenzo de' Medici by Raphael sells for more than Â£18m at auction in London.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to pay more than $45 million for a small painting by the early Renaissance master Duccio di Buoninsegna.
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A Norman Rockwell painting found behind a fake wall sells for a record $15.4m (Â£7.9m) at auction.