'Devil's servant' Oscar Wilde in limelight again at literary auction
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From his lover's rancorous manuscript to a deathbed picture, Oscar Wilde's glory and shame as a homosexual Victorian dandy and one of his era's greatest celebrities are illuminated in a collection up for sale Friday in London.
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There's nothing like a little variety to spice up an auction, especially when it comes to the collections of one of the biggest names in numismatics.
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Hours after winning this year&#39;s Man Booker Prize, Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s novel The Line of Beauty was being reprinted in anticipation of an extra 10,000 sales this week.
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A painting by Winston Churchill, given by Britain's World War Two leader to U.S. President Harry Truman, is expected to fetch up to 500,000 pounds ($1 million) at auction in December.
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Strong sales for impressionist and modern works were evident this week at New York's premier auction houses, with Paul Gauguin's "Maternite (II)" bringing in &#36;39.2 million and Claude Monet's "London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog" &#36;20.1 million.
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The New York Public Library's show of prints by the English satirist crosses the line between interesting artifact and still-exciting art.
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TO PARAPHRASE Oscar Wilde, losing one may be regarded as misfortune but to lose two could look like carelessness. Edvard Munchâs paintings have been targeted again by thieves after an armed gang yesterday
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Fixtures and fittings from Damien Hirst's restaurant Pharmacy are set to be auctioned by Sotheby's.
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Props, paintings and statues from The Da Vinci Code are to be auctioned off to raise money for Lincoln Cathedral.
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Calling all opera lovers with a few spare millions: The house where Giuseppe Verdi wrote "Rigoletto" is up for sale.
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Strong sales for Impressionist and modern works were evident this week at New York&#39;s premier auction houses, with Paul Gauguin&#39;s &quot;Maternite (II)&quot; bringing in $39.
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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 handwritten chapter of Oscar Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," written by the author at the behest of his publishers and including the scandalous visit of the title character to an opium den, has been sold for &#36;132,000.
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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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A rare edition of "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck's epic 1939 tale of Depression-era poverty, sold at auction for $47,800.
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Volunteers sorting through donated books for a book sale found an abolitionist text and a slave's memoir, both dating back to the 1800s.
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Artworks from the formative period of John Constable's career are to go on sale in London.