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The art market is one niche which did suffered its share of downfall in the recession but was still considered a safer place to invest one’s savings than the turbulent stock market. Now is the time to rejoice for all those art lovers, who had their...
At the upcoming London manuscripts sale on July 7, auction house Sotheby's will be offering an ancient biblical manuscript that is expected to fetch $1 million. The 1,500-year-old biblical document features layers of text and meaning in three...
Pablo Picasso’s cherry-red musketeer painting “Homme a l’epee” has been sold for a whopping $11.5 million, the highest price of the season, and it leads Sotheby's sale of Impressionist & Modern Art. With the pre-sale estimates of between...
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.
The recession has dampened the market for arts and antiques, but it’s still considered a wise investment when paper assets are losing their value. And once the market is on the rebound, you can even choose to sell them for big bucks. Coming at...
Celebrated as a seminal piece of postwar design, the Maurice Calka P.-D.G desk is one of the best examples of the finest ‘60s space age design you can bring home. Designed by the French sculptor and designer in 1969 for Leleu-Deshays LDD, the desk..
A rare and flawless cushion-shaped blue diamond is expected to sell for between $5.8 million and $8.5 million (£4.1m to £5.9m) when it goes up for auction at Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels auction in Geneva on May 12. The buyer will also choose a name..
We, as being the mortals, perish but the works of art are immortalized by the artists. A Francis Bacon painting is soon going to be immortalized owing to apt and subtle depiction of a man being attacked by vultures. As per Sotheby’s, this very...
The second annual “Ferrari Leggenda e Passione” auction is all set to start bids for the Ferrari 250 California Spyder. Only 100 units of rare model, considered by many to be the most valuable car that came out of the Ferrari stable, were...
The record for most expensive photo sold at auction has been reclaimed by Richard Prince after one of his prints went for US $3,401,000 at Sotheby's in New York. The previous record was $3.34 million for an Andreas Gursky diptych sold at Sothey's in...
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