Auctions of Impressionist/modern works bring strong prices
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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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Paintings by Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett raise thousands of pounds in an auction of his belongings.
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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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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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ZURICH, Switzerland -- Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the building, they hustled out the door and sped off with paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet valued at $163.2 million.
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A painting of water lilies by Claude Monet sold at a Sotheby's auction Tuesday for $36.8 million. It was the second major work by the impressionist artist to go under the hammer this week.
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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. set six artist records at its auction last night of Impressionist and Modern artwork, as a Paul Gauguin painting fetched $39.
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Bidders shelled out $90.2 million in a contemporary art sale at Sotheby's on Wednesday, the latest in a record-breaking week of sales for London auction houses.
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The market for contemporary and  post-war art is continuing apace as evidenced by a healthy  result, and in particular another record for Mark Rothko, at  Sotheby's on Tuesday.
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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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Four of five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were relinquished by Austria this year after a long legal battle are to be auctioned on Nov. 8 at ChristieÂs.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Cultural prizes are under attack, but they serve a valuable role in bringing art to a wider market.
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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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LONDON: Sold to collectors of modern art: the set of bar stools shaped like aspirins, towering medical cabinets, the DNA-themed sculptures and the molecule-inspired ashtrays.
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Claude Monet's masterpiece Nympheas is expected to fetch up to Â£15m at auction.
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Claude Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert doubles its estimated selling price at auction.
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Artwork attributed to Adolf Hitler is auctioned in England for higher prices than expected.