Auction
Record Setting Purple-Pink Diamond from Russia Sells for $26.6 M. at Sotheby’s
No other stone of its color has sold for such a large sum.
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Royal Opera House’s $16.8 M. Hockney Stars in Christie’s $118 M. Paris-London Series
A Marina Abramović mixed reality work became the first work of its kind to hit the block.
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David Hockney Double Portrait Earns $49.5 M. at $104.6 M. Christie’s London Contemporary Sale
In a fairly concise auction, the only major pass was a Peter Doig painting that was expected to make at least $4 million.
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Drake’s Old Notebook, Found in Dumpster, Selling for $32,500
It is believed to date to between 2002 and 2005, when he was still a working actor.
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Lucian Freud Sells for $29.8 M. at Sotheby’s, New Record in London
The all-time record for a work by the artist stands at $56.2 million.
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Calling All Collectors: Handwritten Tupac Lyrics for Sale, Rap Sheets for the Ages
The online memorabilia site MomentsInTime.com is selling three pages of original notebook paper used by the late rapper Tupac to scribe lyrics for his eternal classic “Dear Mama,” TMZ reports. The…
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Really Big Diamond Fetches $18 M. at Auction
Times might be dark, but this twisted world keeps on spinning. Honestly I’m too spiritually exhausted to even attempt to add something of note, so I’m just going to leave this here: Fortune…
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Last Call: An Unsentimental End for Philip Johnson’s Four Seasons
A strong sense of gloom pervaded the Four Seasons' pool room at the press preview a week before the auction that would sell off its Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen banquettes and tables, its…
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Sotheby’s Is Selling John Lennon’s Detention Sheet
Today in news about scraping the bottom of the barrel, Sotheby’s London will be selling a sheet from John Lennon’s detention book, which documents the 29 times that he was sent to detention between…
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