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Edward Hopper’s “East Wind Over Weehawken” sold for $40.5 million at Christie’s sale of American Art in New York. That makes it the most expensive Hopper ever sold, beating the…
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Bob Dylan’s legendary Fender Stratocaster, played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold for $965,000 at Christie’s (nearly double its high pre-sale estimate). The controversial sunburst instrument went for the…
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Sanford Robinson Gifford’s Civil War Masterpeace at Christie’s American Art Sale
November 24, 2013Robinson Gifford’s Sunday Morning in the Camp of the Seventh Regiment near Washington, D.C., in May 1861 will be among the highlights at Christie’s American Art sale on 5 December.…
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Claude Lorrain’s Mediterranean Port at Sunrise Could Fetch $8 Million at Christie’s
November 24, 2013Claude Lorrain’s Mediterranean port at sunrise with the Embarkation of Saint Paula for Jerusalem is among highlights of Christie’s Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale in London on 3…
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Andy Warhol Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) Exceeded the Record – Sold for $105 Million
November 16, 2013An increasing number of auctions’ records these days. Recently held Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York recorded a new record for the famed pop artist Andy Warhol. His…
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Francis Bacon’s Triptych Reached $142 Million – Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction
November 14, 2013Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” has been sold for a whopping $142 million at Christie’s Tuesday evening sale of post-war and contemporary art and thus become the most…