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Pablo Picasso’s “Nature morte aux tulipes” and Andy Warhol’s “Statue of Liberty” will be the highlights of New York autumn sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. These two works could fetch an estimated price of $35 – $50 million each, when go under the hammer next month. “Nature morte aux tulipes” is actually portrait of Picasso’s young [...]
One of the most famous diamonds in the world – a 76-carat diamond, perfect in color, with flawless internal clarity is expected to fetch well over $15 million at Christie’s auction in Geneva on November 13th. This stunning gem created an auction sensation when Christie’s Geneva offered it for sale for the first time in November, [...]
Until now was thought that there was only two mercury thermometers invented by the famous physicist, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in the early 1700s. But, actually, there was three original examples of the Daniel Fahrenheit thermometer in existence, two of which are in the Boerhaave Museum in the Netherlands, and the third one, the only remaining [...]
Following a last year’s successful online-only auction for a collection of Elizabeth Taylor jewels which totaled $9.5 million, global auction house, Christie’s is launching a series of online sales for global collectors that will run in parallel with its traditional sales. The beginning of this online sales will mark Christie’s first online-exclusive wine sale in [...]
The Lock, a work by the English painter John Constable has sold for £22,441,250 ($34.2 million), at a Christie’s auction in London last week. The 56 x 47 inch (142.2 x 120.7 cm) oil on canvas, which depicts rural life in Suffolk, east England, finished in 1824, is the fifth in a celebrated series of six large-scale [...]
Recently held, Christie’s spring auction in HongKong will be remembered for six minutes sale of tense bidding for rare Martian Pink Diamond. The diamond, the biggest of its kind ever to be sold fetched $17.4 million, more than double the estimated price. It had been expected to sell for between $8 million and $12 million. “The [...]
One of the earliest sculptural types, rare 9,000 year old limestone mask from the Neolithic could fetch $600,000 when it goes under the hammer in June. According to Christie’s, this Neolithic mask is extremely rare, only very few of these masks are known. The mask is preserved due to dry climatic conditions of the Judean [...]
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