Damien Hirst Art Auction Sets $200 Million Record

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...

British artist Damien Hirst works fetch record prices

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,...

Francis Bacon Triptych Sells for $86 Million

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...

Banksy's Morons sells at auction

"A screenprint by Banksy that pokes fun at the art world has sold at auction in London. Moron's reached £5,250, about £1,000 more than its...

J.K. Rowling book sells for $4M: dumb?

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...

Rowling fairytales fetch £1.95m

"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...

Sotheby`s auctions ancient sculpture for $57 mln

"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...

Painting found in trash sells for 1 mln dlrs

"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...

Gauguin painting sells for 39.2 million dollars in New York

"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,...

Citizen Kane Oscar to go under the hammer

"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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