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Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian used his American Express card to buy Modigliani’s “Reclining Nude” at auction for $170 million.
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$54,190,000
Called Everydays: The First 5000 Days, is the first piece of digital art sold by “non-fungible token” (NFT) art was sold on Thursday morning for $69m.
It was created by the American artist Beeple,
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$179,000,000
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The council scrubbed the mural - potentially worth thousands of pounds - off the wall today after receiving a complaint on Tuesday from a member of the public saying 'offensive and racist remarks' had been painted on the wall.
One of Banky's graffiti pieces, recently cut off brickwork in east London sold for £500,000, and in 2008, at artwork of his sold for over £1 million in New York.
Clacton-on-Sea locals were disappointed with the decision, which came just hours after Banksy posted a picture of his latest work on his website banksy.co.uk.
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Artist Tracey Emin was in the room to see her controversial creation My Bed shatter the record for one of her artworks at auction when it was sold for £2.54 million.
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Svetlana Petrova repaints the classics featuring her cat Zarathustra.
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$62.9 million dollars for Andy Warhol
Ronnie Woods is selling this painting of his nude wife for $337,000.
A boys' club who had a rare piece of Banksy artwork left on their front door have had it valued on the Antiques Roadshow for £400,000.
Banksy artwork that was donated to the youth club whose door it was stencilled on sells for £403,000
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Another Banksy mural entitled Kissing Coppers has fetched $575,000 (£345,000) at a US auction after being removed from the wall of a Brighton pub.
Francis Bacon's portrait of his cat burglar lover set to sell for world record £40million.
Fiona Bruce's £400,000 hunch: Antiques Roadshow star spots that £400 painting is really a Van Dyck worth a thousand times as much
The piece, worth up to £400,000, will be revealed tonight to be the most valuable painting to feature in the show’s 36-year history.
It was identified after a hunch by presenter Fiona Bruce when the owner of the painting, Father Jamie MacLeod, took it along to be valued at Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire.
The schmock is the guy who sold it for 400 pounds.
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Nick Lord, 25, was crowned winner of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year competition last night.
His previous work includes this imagined portrait of a pregnant Kate Middleton wearing a leopard print bra, done partially in spray paint
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The devil really IS in the detail! Fascinating 16th century mural of Henry VIII which turns into an image of SATAN when viewed upside down
Fury in Poland after statue marking the rape of millions of German women by Russian soldiers is torn down and artist, Jerzy Szumcczyk, arrested
The statue, entitled Komm Frau (Come Here Woman), appeared on Gdansk's Avenue of Victory on
Saturday evening.
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Zeng Fanzhi's "The Last Supper" sold for $23.3 million at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, setting a new record price for a work by an Asian contemporary artist.
Bearded doppelganger: This old gentleman has found his long-deceased double in this painting.
Russian Police Seize Painting Of Vladimir Putin In A Nightgown Combing Dmitry Medvedev's Hair
The painting is entitled; Travesty.
The Russian artist whose painting of Vladmir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev in women's underwear was seized by police, said Thursday he's seeking asylum in France.
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An American tourist has accidentally snapped the finger off a priceless 14th century statue in Florence, Patrick Broderick, an emergency surgeon, who was visiting from Missouri, apologized. Broderick was arrested and taken into custody in front of his wife and his two college-aged children. He admitted the offence. He was taken to the station for questioning then released. ‘No charges have been filed by the museum and he has not been asked to pay for the repair.’
Timothy Verdun, the head of the museum confirmed that the broken finger was not original to the piece, and had been added at a later date. He added that the price of any repair was not yet known and that, even if it was considered affordable, there was no guarantee that the restoration would be a success.
Now junior, behave yourself!
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Rudy Vallee, as drawn by a 10 year old Andy Warhol
An art enthusiast who bought a £3 sketch from a jumble sale that could be an origAnnal by Andy Warhol has put the drawing up for sale on eBay - with a minimum price of £1.25million.
Andy Fields 49, was astonished when experts said that one of a handful of unidentified sketches he picked up at a sale in Las Vegas could be a previously unknown picture by the pop art legend from when he was aged 10 or 11.
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A celebrity antiques dealer has paid £50,000 for a piece of graffiti inspired by the London riots. New owner Andrew Lamberty, an expert in 20th century design pieces, said the mural is an important work of social commentary. 'There’s every reason to estimate that this Stik piece will go up in value like a Banksy.
'I would expect this to fetch anything up to £10,000, and in the very near future the market could increase significantly to £50,000 and upwards.'
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The controversial artist John Curran painted Bea Arthur nakedin 1991, which features the late actress in nothing but her birthday suit. It's just one of many nude paintings created by the artist, who tends to choose provocative women -- both celebrities and nonentities -- as his subject matter.
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The painting sold for a whopping $1.9 million atChristies Auction House. The pricey painting went to one lucky, anonymous phone bidder.
Jean-Michael Basquiat
A painting owned by Dublin rock group U2 sold for more than €6m at auction tonight.
A Sotheby's spokesman said it sold for €6,417,480 to a European private buyer. The price includes the buyer's premium.
OOOOPS! part 1
Bye bye Banksy!
Banksy's artworks fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds and his graffiti is strewn across cities around the world.
But one man mistook the street art splashed on the side of his Muslim centre as vandalism and set about disguising it with white paint.
Unbeknown to Saeed Ahmed the ‘Gorilla in a Pink Mask’ stencil had been a familiar landmark in the artist's hometown of Bristol for over 10 years.
'I didn’t it know it was valuable. That’s why I painted over it. I really am sorry if people are upset.'
OOOOPS! part 2
Casino mogul Steve Wynn ruined a 74-year Picasso painting call Le Reve. While entertaining David and Mary Boies, Nora Ephron and Nick Pileggi, Louise Grunwald, and Barbara Walters, Steve winded up putting his elbow into the lower right quadrant of the painting.
“So then I made a gesture with my right hand,” Wynn said, “and my right elbow hit the picture. It punctured the picture.” There was a distinct ripping sound. Wynn turned around and saw, on Marie-Thérèse Walter’s left forearm, in the lower-right quadrant of the painting, “a slight puncture, a two-inch tear. We all just stopped. I said, ‘I can’t believe I just did that. Oh, shit. Oh, man.’ ”
Now that’s some expensive elbow. From a sale of $139 million, Steve has to now pay to restore it. Wynn bought the painting in 1997 for $48M and sold in 2013 for $155M.
