Van Gogh fails to sell at auction
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Vincent Van Gogh's The Wheat Fields, which had been expected to fetch up to $35m, fails to sell at auction.
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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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A work by artist Damien Hirst, famed for preserving a shark in formaldehyde, on Thursday became the most expensive by a living artist ever sold at auction, the auctioneers said.
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Impressionist art still brings out the big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on Wednesday pulled in &#36;92.5 million and showed that contemporary art sales are where the action.
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NEW YORK - Bidding was fierce for a few big-name works at Sotheby&#39;s fall sale of Impressionist and modern art in New York Thursday evening, but others fell short of pre-sale estimates and about a fifth of the offerings went unsold.
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The 15-acre estate that served as Michael Vick's dogfighting headquarters failed to sell at auction Saturday.
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A long-lost painting by Swedish master Carl Larsson will be auctioned off next week after it was discovered tucked away in a private collection in France for more than a century, an auction house said Thursday.
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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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A museum in the Netherlands said the portrait was not by Rembrandt, and the provincial auction house in England was only advertising it as a work by one of his followers Â valued at $3,078.
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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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The U.S. heirs to a major collection of art looted by the Nazis and finally returned after years of legal wrangling have sold four paintings back to the Dutch government for $4 million and donated a fifth work.
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Police have a suspect in the bold, daylight robbery of two Edvard Munch masterpieces, but declined Thursday to say how close they are to finding the priceless missing paintings.
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Amsterdam's renowned Rijksmuseum, home to some of the most famous works by Rembrandt and other Dutch masters and which is undergoing restoration, will not reopen until 2010, two years later than planned.
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Going, going, gone? Not if Italy's police can stop renowned auction house Christie's from selling a painting they believe was stolen from an art shop in Rome.
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Recordings of four songs by a 12-year-old girl who later became Judy Garland did not sell at auction on Sunday when bidders failed to reach the required minimum bid.
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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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Some of the finest Russian wines ever sold fail raise less than half their estimated cost at auction house Sotheby's.