Freud portrait breaks art record
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A portrait by Lucian Freud broke the record for a living European artist when it sold for Â£7.8m.
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The Metropolitan Museum's show reveals the portraitist's bountiful range. No doubt about it, he was and remains one of our greatest American painters.
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The black and white photograph from pre-war Germany shows an affluent and important banker sitting beneath one of the important paintings in his treasured collection of art.
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Paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art robberies discovered in a Zurich hospital car park
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The spectacular art collection of a German multi-millionaire goes on show Wednesday amid a raging debate about the source of his fortune: an inheritance from his grandfather, a top Nazi industrialist.
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A painting by John Singer Sargent sells for $23.5m (Â£12.1m), setting a new auction record for the artist.
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The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million(1.2 million pounds).
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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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Found hidden behind a wall this year, the Norman Rockwell painting "Breaking Home Ties" broke a record for the artist when it sold for $15.4 million at auction this week.
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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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Life & style: In pictures: Iconic images feature in a new retrospective photographic exhibition.
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A Francis Bacon painting sells for more than Â£26m at auction, but fails to set a new record for the artist.
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A 1946 painting by L S Lowry is sold for the highest price ever paid for the artist at auction.
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A three-canvas painting by Francis Bacon sold in London for 26.34 million pounds (35.24 million euros, 51.68 million dollars) Wednesday, but narrowly missed out on a record for the artist at auction.
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A stainless steel cabinet containing 6,136 handcrafted and painted pills has set a record for the highest price paid at auction for a work by living artist, an auctioneer said.
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A portrait by Pablo Picasso of one of his best friends is on display in London ahead of its sale at auction.
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The Louvre Museum in Paris bought a  bust by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt on Thursday for a  record-setting $4.8 million, roughly 10 times the expected sale  price, Sotheby's said.