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NEW YORK (Reuters) - If there is distress in the art market, it was not on view at Sotheby's on Wednesday as the auction house sold more than $180 million worth of Impressionist and modern art at a sale exceeding even the ...

Several records were broken for artists at Sotheby's New York auction of impressionist and modern art, with 181 million dollars in sales, above the pre-auction estimate. Successes included "Young Arab," by early 20th century Dutch artist Kees Van Dongen, selling for 13.8 ...

TIME TO BUY HQ? Many investors have given up on real estate. But one group has been on the prowl for property: corporations. Fully 10% of commercial real estate transactions in 2009's first half were corporations acquiring office buildings, sometimes the very ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian high society got an earful of what their riches can obtain this week when a Japanese violinist serenaded them on one of the most expensive violins ever sold at auction. To celebrate the 227th anniversary of the birth ...

An Andy Warhol self-portrait hidden in a cupboard for 40 years will reappear at an upcoming auction in New York for more than a million dollars. The Warhol is one of the stars of Sotheby's contemporary art auction on November 11. It ...

Byron's letters on life, religion, and his many loves sell at London auction for some $460,000 A British auction house says a set of 15 letters and other writings by the rakish Romantic poet Lord Byron have sold for 277,250 pounds (nearly ...

This photo released by Sotheby's, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 in New York, shows a 1965 self-portrait by Andy Warhol. The painting belongs to Cathy Naso, who was 17-years-old when she got a part-time job as a receptionist at Warhol's Factory. The painting ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A collection of letters written by the flamboyant British poet Lord Byron to one of his closest friends was sold on Thursday for 277,250 pounds ($455,000), far above the expected price, Sotheby's said. The letters to Byron's friend ...

This photo provided by Sotheby's shows the front side of a rare miniature portrait of Russian Czar Peter the Great in a diamond-encrusted frame. The back side, not shown, is engraved with a triple-crowned, imperial double-headed eagle. The early 18th century piece ...

Rare miniature portrait of Peter the Great discovered in Arizona to be auctioned in NYC A miniature portrait of Czar Peter the Great in a diamond-encrusted frame — owned for decades by an Arizona family that didn't realize its historic significance — ...