Sotheby's expect Impressionist sale worth millions
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters Life!) - In what could be the most valuable sale they have ever staged in Europe, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday they expect to raise more than 100 million pounds ($195 million) from an Impressionists' auction next week.
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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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Many of Johnny Cash's possessions were sold at Sotheby's, collecting $3,984,260 for the Cash family, more than double the pre-auction estimate.
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Part of the Dutch national art collection featuring some 1,000 paintings, statues and other objects has gone on sale through Internet auction site eBay, officials said Friday.
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Antique golf clubs, from the collection of Jeffery B. Ellis, will be sold at Sothebyâs in New York on Sept. 27 and 28.
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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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Collectors have consigned hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art for the November sales in New York.
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The total worth of the paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and CÃ©zanne was estimated at $163 million.
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A nude portrait of pregnant supermodel  Kate Moss by one of Britain's most renowned artists, Lucian  Freud, sold for 3.93 million pounds ($7.32 million) at a London  auction on Wednesday.
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Jeff Koonsâs âBlue Diamond,â will be offered for sale on Nov. 13 at Christieâs auction of postwar and contemporary art, with an estimate of around $12 million.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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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 copper figure from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery now belongs to the Metropolitan Museum, which purchased it for more than 12 times its estimate.
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Paintings by such luminary artists as Gauguin, Matisse and Monet will be auctioned next week by the city's top two auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, in separate impressionist and modern art sales.
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LONDON, ENGLAND.- Sotheby's fifth annual sale of Spanish Paintings once again demonstrated the continuing strength of international demand for Spanish works.
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The vast, high-end Paris antiques gallery has planned a three-city sale this fall to auction 1,000 of its antiques with Christieâs.
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A recently discovered painting by Sir Winston Churchill is expected to sell for Â£250,000 at auction.