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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

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Magritte Painting Expected to Fetch $63M

A painting by the surrealist master René Magritte is expected to fetch up to £50 million, or US$63 million, at Christie’s standalone sale of surrealist art in March in London. L’ami Intime (The Intimate Friend), created in 1958, depicts Magritte’s iconic bowler-hatted

Michelangelo’s Sketch to be Auctioned

A modest square, hastily sketched on a weathered piece of paper believed to have been crafted by  Michelangelo, will be up for auction in April in New York, as announced by auction house Christie’s. The experts at the company were inspecting a

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Elton John’s First Collection Sale in 21 Years

Elton John is selling 900 items from his former Atlanta penthouse beginning on February 21 in a series of auctions at Christie’s estimated to gross $10 million. Last fall, John, together with husband and manager David Furnish, sold their 13,000-plus-square-foot Atlanta residence

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Climate activists crash Christie’s Auction

Two climate protestors briefly disrupted a Christie’s auction on Nov 11. Mun Chong and Jim Hicks of the climate emergency group Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) New York branch took to the stage during the Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper sale, interrupting the

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Picasso sells for $139 million

A 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso titled Femme à la montre from the collection of the late New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau, sold. at Sotheby’s during a New York evening sale for $139 million with fees. It marks the second-highest price