Monet Fetches $35 million at New York

Sotheby’s announced that a Monet masterpiece fetched nearly $35 million at auction on the evening of May 15, marking a robust beginning to New York’s spring art sales. Sotheby’s and Christie’s kicked off their spring season on Monday. Despite a softening global

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The Original ‘Harry Potter’ Cover Goes on Auction

The upcoming auction at Sotheby’s New York will feature Thomas Taylor’s original watercolor drawing for the first installment of the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (1997). With a high estimate of $600,000, this iconic image served as the

A Gold Watch From the Titanic Sells for a World-Record

The gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest passenger aboard the Titanic, has set a new auction record for the most expensive item of Titanic memorabilia. A private collector in the U.S. purchased the 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch, engraved

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A Gustav Klimt Portrait Sets a New Record

A portrait by Gustav Klimt, missing for a century, recently fetched $32 million at a Vienna auction house. The Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917), with an estimated value of €30 million–€50 million ($32.5 million–$55 million), was acquired by a buyer from Hong

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Basquiat Paintings to Lead Spring Sales

Phillips auction house is set to offer three paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat during its spring sales in New York and Hong Kong. These works, created between 1981 and 1982, originate from the collection of anthropologist Francesco Pellizzi and were acquired from Basquiat’s

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Museum to Sell Monet Painting

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is to sell Claude Monet’s painting Christie’s this May; the artwork could fetch as much as $25 million. Co-owned by the heirs of Ethel B. Atha, the painting has garnered an estimated value of

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‘Titanic,’ Door Sells For $718,750

James Cameron’s Titanic’s famous door sold for $718,750 at auction. In Cameron’s hit romantic disaster film, Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) locate a wooden slab to float on after the ship has sunk. The young couple struggle to

Sultan’s Medal Goes on Auction

Bonhams Auction House in England has announced the upcoming auction of a bronze medal featuring a portrait believed to date back to the princehood era of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. The announcement emphasized that the portrait, rendered on bronze, is thought to

‘Star Wars’ Script Sold at Auction

An original draft of a “Star Wars” script, believed to have been left behind in a London apartment by Harrison Ford, the actor famous for portraying Han Solo, fetched £10,795 ($13,600) at a U.K. auction held on Feb. 17. This script is