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Van Gogh art on sale for $30m

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A Vincent van Gogh work, painted weeks before he killed himself, is going on the market for the first time in more than 90 years, valued at $30m . L’Enfant a l’Orange – or The Child With An Orange – will go on sale… Read full story

London February Contemporary-Art Sales Rose 56% as Bacon, Hirst Works Sell

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Contemporary-art sales in London rose more than 50 percent to 245.7 million pounds ($487.2 million) in February from a year earlier, figures from auction houses show, a sign the market is weathering a worldwide economic slowdown. Sotheby’s, Christie’s International and Phillips de Pury & Co. said they sold 56.4 percent more contemporary art than… Read … Read more

Art sales: Stirrings of a slumbering giant

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Frank Cohen, the ebullient Mancunian art collector, too often dubbed the “Saatchi of the North” for his own liking, is chuffed to bits. In three weeks, his exhibition of contemporary Indian art from his own collection, which he is calling Passage to India, opens in Wolverhampton. “It’s a major thing,” he says, referring to the … Read more