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Dutch painter Rembrandt’s masterpiece "Portrait of a Man," half-length, with his arms akimbo (1658) is all set to go under the hammer in December this year, amid speculation that it could break the record price for a Rembrandt, which currently...
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With the recession hitting wealthy collectors over the last year, the auction houses have faced one of their toughest seasons in years. This year, we saw auctions where great works of art did not find potential buyers. But some of the auctions really.
Christie’s Latin American Sale in New York on May 28 and 29 is set to feature rare and iconic masterpieces from the 17th century colonial art to contemporary paintings. Leading the sale is a self-portrait by famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera...
While Marc Newson’s luxurious Lockheed Lounge chaise had a pre-sale estimate of between £500,000 and £700,000 at Christie’s, it managed to sell for 1.1 million pounds ($1.6 million), which is an auction record for a piece of contemporary design...
An armchair, which was previously expected to sell for around £3 million at Christie's in Paris, has been auctioned off for a whopping £19.4 million (nearly $28 million). This sale has made this brown leather armchair the most expensive piece of...
What credit crunch? At Christie's in Central London, the Wittelsbach diamond became the most expensive stone or piece of jewelry ever sold at an auction. Back in 1664, this sky-blue gem was given as the wedding dowry of a Spanish princess “Infanta..
We have already seen flawless diamonds going under the hammer for big bucks, including the flawless blue diamond and the largest D-color flawless diamond. If one of you wants to startle the woman in your life, blonde or not blonde, with this...
If uniqueness is a passion and being amid antiquity a dream, then here I will introduce you to something that will take you back into the era when the largest mammal to have inhabited the earth reigned. A giant triceratops skeleton, which will be...
I have already listed Francis Bacon's Bullfight painting and his self portrait in my list of top 10 most hyped auction sales of 2007. Now, a three-part painting by Francis Bacon called 'Triptych 1974-77' is expected to sell for 25 million pounds ($50.
Another year has come and gone, and we're both sad and glad to see it go. Last year, a range of historical, unique, and artistic creations were up for auction and some of them went for record prices. Especially, the two major art auction houses,...
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Ryan Block
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Ryan Block, the very name creates ripples amongst tech geeks and perhaps that’s one of the reasons, out of millions, he is donning the Cool Geek of...
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