Hundred-carat colourless diamond auctioned

A record-breaking diamond expected to fetch £3 million at auction is to go under the hammer later this year. Enormous diamond The 101.27-carat gem is the largest colourless diamond to appear at auction in twenty years The 101.27-carat gem is the largest colourless diamond to appear at auction in twenty years. The stone will be … Read more

No signs of City crisis as Bacon sells for 26m

“When I die, my paintings won’t be worth anything, I’ll be forgotten,” Francis Bacon once told a friend. How wrong the artist, who died in 1992, was. One of his canvases was sold last night for £26.34 million, breaking the record for any postwar and contemporary work of art sold in Europe. Read the full … Read more

Paintings go for £105m at auction

LONDON A painting by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Akte im Freien (Drei badende Frauen), fetched £3 million at auction – a record for the artist…. Read full story