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• Huge art sale brings home the Bacon for Sotheby's

  - 2008-07-02

  LONDON AFP — A huge contemporary art sale at London auction house Sotheby's this week saw works sold for a total of nearly 95 million pounds -- a European record for the genre, the firm said. Tuesday evening's sale saw works by artists including Francis Bacon, Antony Gormley and...

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• London's blockbuster week of art auctions set to defy financial gloom

  - 2008-02-03

  LONDON AFP — A Francis Bacon tryptich and works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne are going under the hammer in London this week in auctions set to send sales records tumbling. Auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's are rubbing their hands with anticipation ahead of a week...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, auction, financial, London, SALES, Sotheby's

• Turner watercolour, thought lost, sells for three million pounds

  - 2007-12-05

  LONDON AFP — A watercolour painting by JMW Turner that was thought to have been lost for more than a century sold for nearly three million pounds at an auction in London on Wednesday. "Bamborough Castle" had not been publicly seen since 1889 when it was acquired by the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, London, Sotheby's, U.S.

• Rowling writes first book since Potter finale

  - 2007-11-01

  LONDON AFP — Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has written a new book, her first since the final best-seller about the boy wizard came out earlier this year, she told BBC radio Thursday. But most fans will not be able to buy a copy of "The Tales Of Beedle...

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• Bumper week of contemporary art auctions set to start

  - 2007-10-10

  LONDON AFP — A series of high-profile contemporary art auctions is set to begin in London Friday, as rising levels of interest in the genre have prompted auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's to stage competing sales. "Contemporary art is becoming a global language, the interest is massive," Francis Outred,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, auction, London, SALES, Sotheby's

• Churchill's funeral barge runs aground at auction

  - 2005-12-15

  LONDON AFP — The barge that carried the body of British World War Two leader Sir Winston Churchill during his funeral failed to sell at auction, Sotheby's auction house said. The barge, named Havengore, had been expected to fetch at least one million pounds (1.48 million euros, 1.77 million...

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• Records tumble at Russian art auctions in London

  - 2005-12-05

  LONDON, AFP — New records for Russian art were set in London this past week as the nation's post-communist nouveau riche snapped up national treasures worthy of a world-class museum. Christie's, Sotheby's, MacDougall's and, for the first time, Bonham's held auctions for Russian paintings and objets d'art, bringing together...

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