LS Lowry paintings up for auction
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Six Lowry paintings are expected to make about Â£3m when they are sold at auction.
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The owners of a five-bedroomed house in southwestern England are giving it away to the person who buys the giant mural that star street artist Banksy sprayed on one of its outside walls three years ago.
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A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to Â£100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery.
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Elton John is known for his music, but what about his photos? A hundred photographs from the singer's collection will go on the auction block at Christie's this week.
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Art from the home of murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace is up for auction.
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A saxophone belonging to jazz legend Charlie Parker is among items up for auction in New York next month.
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A gang of art thieves steal a 15 paintings, including three by Lowry, from a newly opened gallery.
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STOCKHOLM-The last major work of renowned Russian painter Ilya Repin will be auctioned off in Sweden in December, after being tucked away in a private collection for 50 years.
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The first major paintings to have been commissioned from Jack Vettriano appear at 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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The National Gallery has acquired a Salomon van Ruysdael painting: âFerry on a Riverâ of 1649, one of his classic landscapes.
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Andy Warhol's 1963 painting Mustard Race Riot, about civil rights protests, sells for $15.1m (Â£8.1m).
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A painting attributed to Adolf   Hitler fetched 10,500 pounds ($20,000) at auction in Britain on   Tuesday, despite art experts' doubts that the watercolors on   sale were the work of the Nazi leader.
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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 top London gallery owner and   international auctioneers on Wednesday announced plans to cash   in on the booming contemporary art market ahead of an annual   fair that attracts hundreds of collectors to the city.
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An unknown painting by old master El  Greco, discovered by chance in a brown envelope in a flat in  Spain, will be offered for sale in December with a starting  price of 600,000 pounds ($1.1 million).
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An online auction for a Banksy painting on a wall in west London closes with a final bid of Â£208,100.