London: Billionaire Indian businessman Anil Ambani's wife Tina Ambani is seeking to raise over £1,00,000 for her Harmony Art Foundation by selling a dozen art works at Christie's, which is also exhibiting 32 works from the Ambani family's private collection.
The global auction powerhouse said in a statement that starting from Wednesday, Christie's London would exhibit 32 works from Tina and Anil Ambani's private...
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The 1873 oil on canvass by Claude Monet's 1873 oil painting, Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil, sold Tuesday at a New York Christie's auction for over £21 million. The price beat last year's record price for a Monet by more than 10 percent. The impressionist's painting features a railway bridge above a calm river with sailboats on the water.
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A former public school art teacher duped auction houses into selling fake antique pots he made in his shed.
He made dozens of bowls and vases that he stamped with his own version of the potters' seal to make them appear genuine. He then convinced auctioneers, including Christie's and Bonhams, to offer them for sale.
Bonhams unwittingly sold two fake Leach vases and a Rie pot for a total of...
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Banksy and friends are transforming a London railway tunnel into an art exhibition.
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From tomorrow, however, when the tunnel opens to the public, the graffiti are expected to attract thousands, because they represent the largest exhibition by Banksy, a determinedly anonymous British graffiti artist. He has gathered 40 of the chief proponents of the form to transform the tunnel into a showcase...