A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal "On the Origin of Species" will be sold this week after it was found in a ...
Buyers from Asia purchased all but one of the top 10 priciest items at the sale of the last belongings of late couturier ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A one-ton nude sculpture by Colombian Fernando Botero sold for $1.14 million, outstripping its top rival, a delicate portrait of crumpled paper, in a robust sale of Latin American art in New York. Botero's "Smoking Woman" led ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Royal heirlooms including a picnic set and a portrait painted by Queen Victoria go on sale at Christie's in London on Friday and are expected to fetch around one million pounds ($1.7 million). The auction of around 200 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A bronze of a voluptuous nude holding a cigarette and a volcanic landscape strewn with lifeless limbs top this week's Latin American art auctions. The New York sales at Christie's and Sotheby's follow strong auctions this month ...
After auctioning a highly valuable art collection amassed over half a century, Pierre Berge, partner of late pantsuit pioneer Yves Saint Laurent, is putting everyday pieces up for sale this week. Last February's 700-item sale of the YSL/Berge collection smashed record on ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - In perhaps another sign of a recovering economy, millions of dollars worth of wines and spirits sold at three different auctions in New York over the weekend. At Christie's almost $3 million worth of wines and fine ...
39-carat 'Evening Star' diamond up for auction in NYC; estimated to fetch up to $5.5M 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 between $3.6 million and $5.5 ...
This undated photograph provided by Christie's shows the 39-carat pear-shaped diamond called the "Evening Star," going on the auction block in New York on Dec. 10, 2009. Coming from the same ancient mine in India as the celebrated Hope diamond, its pre-sale ...
Warhol's '200 One Dollar Bills' sells for $43.8M, well over its presale estimate A painting by Andy Warhol, "200 One Dollar Bills," brought the equivalent of 43.8 million dollar bills at auction, more than three times its highest presale estimate of $12 ...
Serious money has flowed back into the international art market at New York's autumn sales, although still bypassing some of the big ticket items. The November sales at Sotheby's and rival Christie's in New York marked something of a recovery from the ...
A 1984 Michael Jackson portrait by pop-art icon Andy Warhol surpassed estimates to fetch 812,500 dollars at auction on Tuesday, but two headline pieces at the Christie's sale in New York flopped. Warhol's "Tunafish Disaster," a 1963 silkscreen depicting two housewives who ...
