As NowPublic previously reported, widely-acclaimed British artist Damien Hirst set a first-day auction record for sales of his controversial works. After two days, the auction soared to a record breaking $200.7...
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Damien Hirst is today arguably the most successful artist alive in Modern Britain. He has set a record of sort with his new works for more than £65m. One of his work The Black Sheep with the Golden Horn,...
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A Francis Bacon painting, "Triptych, 1976" set a world record for a contemporary art auction, when it sold for more than $86 milllion at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday. "A three-panel masterpiece by Francis Bacon broke a record for contemporary art auctions...
I'm fairly confident the book's not a four million dollar read, but at least it's going to charity."British writer J.K. Rowling continues to work magic, with a handwritten book of her fairy tales selling for...
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"A book of fairytales by the Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, has fetched £1.95m at auction.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard had been expected to fetch £30,000-£50,000. But there were frenzied scenes in the sale room at Sotheby's in central London as bidding got under...
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"The Guennol Lioness is a 3.25-inch (8.3-cm) tall white limestone figure created 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers mostly in modern Iraq and Iran.
The sculpture is considered one f the last known masterworks...
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"A painting found in a pile of trash on a New York street sold at Sotheby's auction house late Tuesday for a million dollars, nearly 20 years after it was stolen from a warehouse in Texas."Tres personajes" ("Three People") a 1970 work by Rufino Tamayo, one of Mexico's best...
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"The depiction of a Tahitian woman bathing under mango trees had carried a pre-sale estimate of 40 to 60 million dollars and had been expected to beat the record of 40.3 million dollars for a work by the artist,...
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"The Oscar won by Orson Welles for Citizen Kane could fetch as much as £600,000 when it goes under the hammer in December, an auction house said today.
The iconic film about a newspaper magnate is often said to be one the greatest films produced by Hollywood. Welles and...
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