Claude Monet’s Le Bassin Aux Nympheas fetched at £40.92 million Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art auction last night. The painting of waterlillies floating on water sold for more than double its pre sale estimate and the double the prior record for a Monet.
According to The Wall Street Journal, 15 of the 81 pieces up [...]

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June 19 (Bloomberg) — Damien Hirst said he will offer a sculpture of a gold-trimmed bull, The Golden Calf, that he expects to fetch up to 12 million pounds ($23.5 million) at a Sotheby’s London auction of his works in September.
The “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” auction on Sept. 15 and 16 is Sotheby’s…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 19, 2008) – While yesterday’s well-known masterpieces by artists like Van Gogh, Picasso and DaVinci can be found in art galleries around the world, today’s world of technology takes the art gallery online to introduce the artists of tomorrow. Via Second Life, an Internet-based community where users, or avatars, communicate and visit [...]

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Swindon is about to get its taste of “affordable art” as Swindon’s local auctioneers, Kidson-Trigg at Highworth, are holding an unusual auction on Tuesday. This 300 lot picture auction is a dispersal sale of C20th, Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Art from Jarvis Hotels Ltd.
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There is an opportunity to view the sale this Sunday 10am - [...]

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Pablo Picasso’s Sylvette has become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in Australia.
The brightly coloured portrait sold for $6.9 million at an auction in Sydney.
Kensington’s Deutscher-Menzies Gallery had estimated the work would go for between $5 million and $7 million.
The previous record for a work sold at auction in Australia was set last [...]

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An 18th-century canvas by the Italian painter Pietro Fabris was the top seller at Sotheby’s Old Master sale Thursday. “Villagers Preparing to Depart for the Festival of the Madonna Dell’Arco” was bought for $722,500, well above the high estimate of $400,000. The 142-lot auction posted overall sales of $8.13 million, a solid but not thrilling [...]

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June 5 (Bloomberg) — A high-profile liquidation of English furniture from bankrupt Salander-O’Reilly Galleries LLC remains scheduled for June 7, after an objection to the sale by Lawrence Salander’s father-in-law was rejected by a judge.
The auction at Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, is the biggest to date from the remains of Salander-O’Reilly. The [...]

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