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A masterpiece by Claude Monet, said to be one of the greatest Impressionist pictures left in private hands, is expected to break the world auction record for the artist at a sale this spring. Such is the significance of Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, dated 1873, that it is likely to spark … Read more
Eight years ago a hard-up student spent the last £300 of his student loan on a piece of art. Next week it will be displayed in a commercial art gallery with a price tag of £150,000. The work in question, Riot Green, is one of more than 60 pieces by Banksy to…(snip) Among the unseen … Read more
John Preston reviews The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Auction Houses by Don Thompson Don Thompson has good advice for anyone who walks into an art gallery with even vague thoughts of buying a work of art. Ignore the girl behind the desk who looks at you with withering … Read more
LONDON.- Following Sotheby’s hugely successful pioneering London sale of Russian Contemporary Art in February, 2007 – the Company’s best-ever year for sales of Russian Art – on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Sotheby’s will hold its second ever sale in this category in London. Comprising more than 150 lots which range in media from fine art … Read more
It was the auction that never was, as police tried to trace a thief who stole £30,000 worth of paintings and pottery from the personal collection of Suffolk artist Bernard Rooke. Art enthusiasts filled the auction rooms at Gaze and Sons in Diss each hoping to pick up one of the 34 pieces of Rooke’s … Read more