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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April 1 (Bloomberg) — Andy Warhol has overtaken Picasso as the world’s most actively traded artist, said the French-based art-market database, Artprice, in its annual report on trends.
Warhol led the 2007 table of the world’s 500 most auctioned artists with $422.3 million in sales, more than doubling the year-earlier $199.6 million, Artprice said….
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LONDON A painting by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Akte im Freien (Drei badende Frauen), fetched £3 million at auction – a record for the artist….
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