London braces for "billion dollar" art auction week
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A series of art auctions kick off in London on Monday with the prospect of collectors parting with up to $1 billion in a five-day spending spree.
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An extraordinary week in the short history of the contemporary art market in London has ended.
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A painting has sold for 1,700 times its maximum reserve price as the winning bidder believed it to be a self-portrait by 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt, British media reported on Saturday.
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Russian authorities say a cancelled London exhibition of major Russian and French artworks should now go ahead.
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Artist David Hockney will unveil the largest picture of his career at London's Royal Academy.
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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 years by America's Jasper Johns.
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A recently discovered painting by Sir Winston Churchill is expected to sell for Â£250,000 at auction.
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Eleven works by cult British artist Banksy exceeded their estimates on Wednesday at a London auction, underlining his ongoing appeal to contemporary art collectors.
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ChristieÂs opened its week of art auctions in Hong Kong by realizing a record-breaking $67.9 million in its sales of Asian contemporary and Chinese 20th-century art.
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A rare watercolour painting by sculpture Modigliani sells for Â£423,000 at an auction in London.
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A collection of work by artist L S Lowry, valued at half a million pounds, is to go on sale in Birmingham.
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The price of this painting at auction was Â£205,000 - but its real market value is likely to be Â£5m.
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Impressionist art still brings out the  big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on  Wednesday pulled in $92.5 million and showed that contemporary  art sales are where the action.
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Russia will permit paintings from its museums to go to London for a major exhibition after British legislation protecting art from seizure in lawsuits comes into force, the government culture agency said Friday.
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters Life!) - In what could be the most valuable sale they have ever staged in Europe, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday they expect to raise more than 100 million pounds ($195 million) from an Impressionists' auction next week.
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Getty Images, the worldâs biggest supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block.
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An auction of modern and Impressionist paintings becomes the most lucrative art auction held at Sotheby's.