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.-Sotheby’s auction of Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints on Tuesday, 1st April, 2008 offers work by major artists across the history of art. Featuring a rare and important collection of graphic works by Henri Matisse as well as a dedicated group of prints by ‘Andy Warhol & The Pop Generation’, the pre-sale exhibition will [...]

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The late Ileana Sonnabend had a great eye, but no estate can outrun the taxman, and now her art collection is being readied to go on the block to allow her executors to pay taxes on her $400 million estate.
Manhattan-based Sotheby’s and London-based Christie’s International are reportedly competing for the collection, which includes well-known works [...]

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Sotheby’s and Phillips de Pury will be testing the confidence of the contemporary-art market in London tomorrow and the day after, with sales that are expected to set European record totals for the auction houses.
The two are forecasting revenue of at least …
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NEW YORK (AP) - An art gallery has sued Christie’s auction house and a man who tried to sell a $100,000 Andy Warhol painting that the gallery reported stolen nearly 10 years ago.
Martin Lawrence Galleries says in court papers that the 1981 artwork, known as the Warhol “Dollar Sign,” was stolen with another Warhol painting [...]

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