Raphael painting sells for Â£18m
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A portrait of Florentine ruler Lorenzo de' Medici by Raphael sells for more than Â£18m at auction in London.
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A diamond-encrusted human skull by British artist Damien Hirst sells to an investment group for Â£50m.
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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 (&#36;1.1 million).
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A work by artist Damien Hirst, famed for preserving a shark in formaldehyde, on Thursday became the most expensive by a living artist ever sold at auction, the auctioneers said.
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A 1946 painting by LS Lowry is sold for the highest price paid for the artist at an auction.
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A painting has sold for 1,700 times its maximum reserve price as the winning bidder believed it to be a self-portrait by 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt, British media reported on Saturday.
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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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An online auction for a Banksy painting on a wall in west London closes with a final bid of Â£208,100.
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English graffiti artist Banksy's screen print of supermodel Kate Moss sold for $191,000 at a street art auction in London.
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A 16th Century painting by artist El Greco, valued at Â£500,000, is discovered in an envelope in Spain.
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NEW YORK -- A painting from Claude Monet&#39;s iconic series on London&#39;s House of Parliament has sold at auction for $20.1 million.
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A medieval stone carving that spent years marking the grave of an elderly couple&#39;s beloved pet cat yesterday fetched more than Â£200,000 at auction.
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The treasure that a New York City woman saved from the rubbish -- a stolen masterpiece by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo -- is expected to go for as much as $1 million (488,000 pounds) at auction next month.
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A painting of a Venetian view by Italian master Canaletto is sold for $5.28m (Â£2.8m) in New York.
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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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A rare 11th century rock crystal ewer, misidentified as a 19th Century French claret jug, has sold for 220,000 pounds at auction, more than one thousand times its pre-sale estimate, the Art Newspaper said on Monday.
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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.