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"Evening Star" Diamond, 39-Carat Jewel, Up For Auction

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — A 39-carat pear-shaped diamond called the Evening Star is going on the auction block in New York City. Its pre-sale estimate is betw...

Basquiat Expected To Fetch $12 Million At Christie's Auction

justluxe.com | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York


An epic masterpiece by Jean-Michel Basquiat, the highlight of the season's major art auctions, is estimated to fetch up to $12 million stars in Christ...

The Evolution of Paris as a Major Art Market

Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York


Stephanie Adamowicz

Paris is attracting an increasing number of international galleries exhibiting high-quality works by blue chip artists.

Degas Pastel Only Winner At Christie's Art Auction

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York


French and Italian could be heard throughout Christie's salesroom Tuesday night as the fall auction season began unsteadily: While there were some str...

Fall Auction Season A Question Mark For Art World

Crain's New York Business | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York


The art world is anxiously awaiting the coming fall auction season, a major gauge of whether collectors are still feeling the wrath of the economic do...

Annenberg Diamond Sold For $7.7 Million At Christie's Auction

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — A square, 32.01-carat emerald-cut diamond that billionaire philanthropist Leonore Annenberg bought for her 90th birthday sold for $7....

Astoria Characters: The Frame-O-Phile

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York


Nancy Ruhling

Astoria-based Eli Wilner has become the framer of choice for the Smithsonian, Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses and the White House. "I want to frame the whole world," he says.

New Show on NBC on Collecting

Reyne Haines | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style


Reyne Haines

Set Your DVR!: Art of Collecting with Reyne Haines and Jonathan Novack Premieres Thursday, September 10 on Channel 2, NBC Houston (Houston, Texa...

Top Ten: Celebrity Collectibles

Reyne Haines | Posted 09.12.2009 | Style


Reyne Haines

Which celebrities' pre-owned gems scored big at auction? At number 7, Marilyn Monroe's white baby grand piano, sold by Christies. The lucky bidder? Mariah Carey, for $662,500.

Three Or More: Collecting in the 21st Century

Reyne Haines | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style


Reyne Haines

They say a collection is something you have three or more of. Why just 3 and not 4, or a dozen? I have no idea.

Yves Saint Laurent Auction: Record Brancusi, Matisse, Mondrian Sales (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 03.26.2009 | Style


***UPDATED 4:45pm ET*** The world may be embroiled in a crippling credit crisis, but that didn't stop collectors from paying record prices at what Ch...

Yves Saint Laurent Art Auction Expected To Fetch $250 Million

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 03.25.2009 | Style


PARIS — From the Picassos that graced his walls to historic artifacts and hundreds of sculptures, the artwork that inspired late fashion designe...

Nude Madonna Photo Sells For $37,500

AP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — A full-frontal, nude photo of a 20-year-old Madonna fetched $37,500 at auction Thursday, an apparent record auction price for a photo...

Madonna Nude Going On Auction Block At Christie's (NSFW PHOTO)

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 02.16.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK � Christie's auction house says a 30-year-old nude photo of Madonna, which earned her a $25 modeling fee, is expected to sell for at least ...

Christie's Slashing Costs, Jobs As Art Market Slows

New York Times | JULIA WERDIGIER | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business


LONDON -- When works by the British artist Damien Hirst sold for a record $127 million on the same day in September that Lehman Brothers filed for ban...

Art is a Versatile Tool; Use Your Collection to Your Advantage

Paul Klein | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago


Paul Klein

A solid art collection is an amazing asset whose worth is invariably overlooked. Most collectors aren't honoring their collection, using it or enabling it to take care of them.

Lehman Boss Fuld To Put $20 Million Of Art Collection On The Block At Christie's Tonight

The Guardian | Julia Kollewe | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business


The bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers wants to sell at least $8m (�5.2m) worth of the art collection that once decorated its offices. The new...

Christie's Fails To Find Buyers For 14 Works

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.15.2008 | Business


For the first time in four years, Christie's fell short of its pre-sale estimate at an evening art auction. The auction house sold off $277 million wo...

Nude Portrait Expected To Fetch $35 Million At Auction

Times | Dalya Alberge | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business


A Lucian Freud portrait of a 20-stone female benefits supervisor looks set to break the world auction record for any work by a living artist, despite ...

Credit Crunch Not Affecting Art Auctions

Reuters | Jeremy Lovell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Rather like the premature reports of the death of Mark Twain, forecasts of the collapse of the art market as a result of the global credit crunch appe...

Rothko Painting May Sell For $40M At Christie's

Bloomberg | Linda Sandler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Christie's International, the auction house owned by French billionaire Francois Pinault, is gearing up for its New York sales in May with a Mark Roth...

Trekkie Sues Auction House Over "Fake" Visor

AP | David B. Caruso | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


A Trekkie who paid $6,000 for a poker visor that was supposedly worn by the android Data on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" claim...

1926 Scotch Sells For $54K At Auction

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


A bottle of 81-year-old Scotch sold for $54,000 at this New York's first liquor auction since Prohibition. An anonymous collector bought the pricey p...

Faberge Egg Sells For Record High Price

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


A rare enamel-and-gold Faberge egg that had been in the Rothschild banking family for more than a century sold for record $18.5 million at auction Wed...

Matisse Painting Sells For Record-Breaking $33.6 Mil

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


An Henri Matisse painting was auctioned at Christie's for $33.6 million, a record for the artist, during a sale devoted to Impressionist and modern ar...