Christie's Fails To Find Buyers For 14 Works
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...
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Nude Portrait Expected To Fetch $35 Million At Auction
Times | Dalya Alberge | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
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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 02.06.2008 | Business
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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 01.11.2008 | Business
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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 12.31.2007 | Business
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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 12.09.2007 | 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 11.29.2007 | Business
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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...
Eating Art in a World of Greed
Peter Clothier | Posted 11.27.2007 | Living
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Today's collectors consume art with insatiable and competitive greed. They can't wait to write their seven-figure checks for those the art market has blessed.
Matisse Painting Sells For Record-Breaking $33.6 Mil
AP | Posted 11.07.2007 | 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...
Warhol's Portrait Of Conrad Black To Be Auctioned By Christie's
FishbowlNY | Posted 10.23.2007 | Business
Christie's is auctioning off the assets of disgraced media baron Conrad Black. All well and good. They are discreetly referring to the provenance of g...
Imus, 8-Year-Old Son Flip Off Reporters At Benefit
New York Observer | David Foxley | Posted 10.23.2007 | Business
Don Imus refused to speak to the press at Christie's auction house in Rockefeller Plaza last night, where a fund-raiser for the children's charity S.K...
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