It’s the most expensive post-war work of art ever to be sold in Europe - £26.3m with commission.
Stocks and property are wobbling, credit has evaporated, but in the surreal world of London’s auction houses…
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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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A fake Monet painting, which featured on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, has been sold at auction for £15,000.
Tom Keating’s View of Santa Maria della Salute and Grande Canal, Venice, was sold to a London buyer when it went under the hammer in Northamptonshire….
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The poster for the Highlands’ first comic expo, Hi-Ex The influence of Scottish writers and artists on some of the best known comic book characters in the world will be examined at a new convention.
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The four major international auction houses have all confirmed record sales for 2007.
The Rothschild Faberge Egg
The Rothschild Fabergé egg sold to the Russian National Museum for £8.9 million
Christie’s, the dominant saleroom over the previous two years, barely clung onto its lead with $6.3 billion (£3.1 billion) of sales against Sotheby’s $6.2 billion (up 51 per [...]

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