Diamond skull sells for 50 mln pounds
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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 (50 million pounds), a spokeswoman for Hirst&#39;s London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.
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PARIS, FRANCE.- According to French police, two diamonds worth around $14.1 million dollars, were stolen from an antique dealers' show at the Louvre museum.
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Diamonds are a girl's best friends, and Nicole Kidman only seems to reinforcing the idea in her new 12 million dollar ad campaign for Chanel No.5, which features herwearing custom-designed outfits by Karl Lagerfeld, and jewellery worth 42 million dollars including a special piece studded with 687 diamonds.
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A diamond-encrusted skull by British artist Damien Hirst sold on Thursday for 100 million dollars (75 million euros), a record price for work sold by a living artist, a London gallery announced.
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Some of the world's most famous meteorites are up for sale in a New York auction called the first of its kind.
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Sir Sean privately buys a Diamonds Are Forever souvenir.
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A set of pearls once belonging to Marie Antoinette and taken to Britain by a friend for safekeeping will go on sale in December, and are expected to fetch up to $800,000.
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A 1,200-year-old Anglo-Saxon penny sold for &#36;409,000 Wednesday, setting what the auction house said was a new world record for the most expensive British coin.
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It is no secret that the art market has become drunk with money lately, but $100 million for a diamond skull by the artist Damien Hirst? Even Russian oligarchs and hedge-fund billionaires might think twice.
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Gerald Ratner is set to table an improved bid of Â£350m for the UK operations of jewllery company Signet.
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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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A 10th-century stone carving used for many years as a headstone to mark the grave of a British couple's cat sold for 175 000 (about R1,95-million) at auction on Friday.
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One of Britain's largest independent game makers, Argonaut Games, has been put up for sale.
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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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A painting by Bollywood star Sushmita Sen is auctioned for a whopping $50,000, a price usually reserved for some of India's most popular artists.
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A 8ft-tall sculpture of a diamond is expected to raise around Â£6m when it is sold at auction in November.
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NEW YORK/LONDON (Billboard) - It's perfectly legal, but it will still seem to some listeners like the sound of someone making off with England's crown jewels.