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Abramovich Buys $60M Kabakov Collection

Abramovich Buys $60M Kabakov Collection

Posted by on Jan 30, 2013 in Collections | 0 comments

The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and his partner, Dasha Zhukova, have purchased a historic collection of works by the Russian...

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The Top 10 Earners at Auction in 2012

The Top 10 Earners at Auction in 2012

Posted by on Dec 19, 2012 in Auctions | 0 comments

2012 was a record-breaking year in many regards within the art world, with the $120 million sale of Edvard Munch’s The Scream...

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Raphael Drawing Breaks Records at Sotheby’s

Raphael Drawing Breaks Records at Sotheby’s

Posted by on Dec 6, 2012 in Last Night's Auction Results | 0 comments

A drawing by the famed painter Raphael sold last night at Sotheby’s London for $47.8 million (£29.7 million). It is the highest...

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Archduke Joseph Diamond Earns $21.5M at Christie’s

Archduke Joseph Diamond Earns $21.5M at Christie’s

Posted by on Nov 16, 2012 in Last Night's Auction Results | 0 comments

The Archduke Joseph diamond—a rare, internally flawless gem from India’s Golconda mines—fetched a record 20.355 million Swiss francs...

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Sotheby’s Ushers in $375M Contemporary Sale

Sotheby’s Ushers in $375M Contemporary Sale

Posted by on Nov 15, 2012 in Last Night's Auction Results | 0 comments

Breaking their previous record set in 2008 at $362 million, Sotheby’s New York ushered in an unprecedented $375 million sale on Tuesday...

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Christie’s to Host Unprecedented Sale

Christie’s to Host Unprecedented Sale

Posted by on Nov 3, 2012 in Auctions | 0 comments

Christie’s upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place on November 14 in New York, with the auction house...

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Owner of “The Scream” Purchases Phaidon Press

Owner of “The Scream” Purchases Phaidon Press

Posted by on Oct 9, 2012 in Books & Lit | 0 comments

Leon Black, the CEO of Apollo Global Management and the man recently revealed to be the successful bidder of Edvard Munch’s The...

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Basquiat’s “Untitled” Aims to Break Records at Christie’s

Basquiat’s “Untitled” Aims to Break Records at Christie’s

Posted by on Sep 20, 2012 in Painting & Sculpture | 0 comments

A work by Jean-Michel Basquiat is poised to break the artist’s high record when it heads to Christie’s Post War and Contemporary Sale...

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Munch’s “The Scream” Will Go on View at MoMA

Munch’s “The Scream” Will Go on View at MoMA

Posted by on Sep 19, 2012 in Museums | 0 comments

Edvard Munch’s The Scream, which sold for a record price of $119.9 million at Sotheby’s in early May, will go on view at New...

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Legendary Aston Martin Priced at Record $32 Million

Legendary Aston Martin Priced at Record $32 Million

Posted by on Sep 12, 2012 in The Arts | 0 comments

Berkshire-based car dealer Talacrest is formally asking £20 million ($32 million) for the only Aston Martin to have ever won the Le Mans...

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Study Finds Correlation Between Auction Price & Google Hits

Study Finds Correlation Between Auction Price & Google Hits

Posted by on Aug 26, 2012 in Markets | 0 comments

Washington State University conducted a study on the sales of 1,100 paintings auctioned between 1998 and 2011 and applied hedonic...

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Original Spider-Man Cover Art Sells for Record $657,250

Original Spider-Man Cover Art Sells for Record $657,250

Posted by on Jul 30, 2012 in Auctions | 0 comments

Todd McFarlane’s original cover art for “The Amazing Spider-Man” No. 328 sold at Heritage Auctions for a record price of...

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