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Buyers go wild for Savoy sell-off

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By Jonathan Sibun Last Updated: 12:32am GMT 22/12/2007 The three day auction of the contents of the Savoy, the iconic London hotel, raised more than twice the pre-sale estimate this week as buyers ignored the doom and gloom pervading the high street to spend more than £1.8m. Famous faces from the world of film and … Read more

SA can’t afford to keep its art heritage

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Melanie Peters   December 23 2007 at 02:09PM Artworks by famous South Africans are expected to fetch all-time record prices when they go under the hammer in London in January. But local art admirers fear the six-figure sums are pricing local galleries out of the market and that South Africa’s art heritage is being lost to … Read more

Renowned Artist’s “Muse” Mercedes to Star in Bonhams’ First Paris Sale

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1936 Mercedes-Benz 500K owned by leading Abstract Expressionist artist, Georges Mathieu. The celebrated French artist Georges Mathieu will sell the 1936 Mercedes-Benz that he has owned for more than 50 years in Bonhams’ inaugural Paris sale on Saturday 9 February 2008. Mathieu, who held a major retrospective of his work in Paris in 2003, bought … Read more