Record prices paid for Gauguin, Modigliani works at auction
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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 sale broke the artistâs record and underlined the enduring market influence of the workâs latest owner, the collector Charles Saatchi.
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$39.2 million for a Gauguin. $20.1 million for a Monet. The cost of impressionist and modern art continues to go up as evidenced by sales at two recent auctions by Sotheby&#39;s and Christie&#39;s.
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A leading art collector has left 18 paintings by artists including Claude Monet, Francis Bacon and Paul Gauguin to two of London's top galleries, they said Monday.
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Christie's opens a sale of Chinese and Asian art in Hong Kong with record prices expected, amid an art boom.
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Christie's sold a Francis Bacon triptych  for 26.3 million pounds ($51.7 million) late on Wednesday, the  highest price paid at a European auction for a post-war work,  and narrowly short of the artist's record.
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Collection sold at Christie's sparks bidding in person, by phone and via internet.
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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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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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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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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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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 Russian businessman paid a record price on Wednesday for an 18th century violin that had not been played in public for more than 70 years.
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A collection of items belonging to the late opera star Maria Callas fetches 1.76m Euros (Â£1.26m) at auction.
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An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.
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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 portrait of Florentine ruler Lorenzo de' Medici by Raphael sells for more than Â£18m at auction in London.