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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...
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...
Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
Paris is attracting an increasing number of international galleries exhibiting high-quality works by blue chip artists.
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...
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...
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....
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
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.
Reyne Haines | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style
Set Your DVR!: Art of Collecting with Reyne Haines and Jonathan Novack Premieres Thursday, September 10 on Channel 2, NBC Houston (Houston, Texa...
Reyne Haines | Posted 09.12.2009 | Style
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.
Reyne Haines | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Paul Klein | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York