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A Francis Bacon painting the artist donated to an art college in lieu of rent decades ago has sold for $16.4 million at an auction where solid but unspectacular results suggest global financial turmoil may be unsettling the art market. Complete Story...
An Andy Warhol painting sold for more than $71 million, more than quadrupling the previous top auction price for the pop artist's work, an auction house said.
The papers of one of Britain's greatest scientists, which were lost for centuries and saved for the nation in a £1 million sale last year, become available to read online today.
It is common practise in some circles to accept the work of an aspiring artist in lieu of rent, mostly in the hope that the artwork will reap dividends.
Actress Sophia Loren is about to make as big an impact on the art market as she did on the silver screen: next week she will sell Francis Bacon's 1956 painting Study for Portrait II, from his series of pictures influenced by Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X.
The Serpentine Gallery has surrendered itself to Damien Hirst and his collection of art. There are bones on the walls, lumps of flesh on the floor and limbless animals out in the garden. Hirst likes what he likes - and it is like what he makes.
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