Roy Lichtenstein's Sleeping Girl was expected to sell for $40 million
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Chinese and Asian Buyers Are Paying Record Prices for Art WorksFirst growth horizontal lot wines from 2000 in France Also FeaturedPainting One of Four Stolen in Zurich by Armed Robbers in 2008Metropolitan Museum Showcases Central European Art 1400-1700 Albrecht Dürer’s iconic Self-portrait and Studies of the Artist’s Hand and a Pillow (1493), Hot Market for Contemporary Art Could Push Up Price Even MoreMore Than 5,500 Artifacts to be Included in a Single LotCelebrated for Stage, Screen, He Was Also a British SpyStatuettes for 1941 Best Picture, 1947 Best Actor Changed Hands |
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A painting by the French artist Paul Cezanne, worth an estimated $100 million, has been found relatively unscathed four years after it was stolen at gunpoint from a Swiss museum by three masked robbers.
On a cold night, April 15, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg, sank in just over two hours and laid undisturbed in the North Atlantic for seven decades. Now more than 5,500 artifacts and the ship itself is up for auction in an unprecedented sale.
Noel Coward, playwright, composer… and spy? That’s just one of the facets revealed in a new exhibit by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. The show opened Monday (Feb. 12).
Meryl Streep, Octavia Spencer and Jean Dujardin all cherished their coveted Oscars at the 84th Annual Academy Awards, but over time, even these statuettes may become unwanted–albeit expensive–junk.
