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Princess Diana’s Top Five Most Expensive Wardrobe Items
Though her iconic “Black Sheep” sweater fetched over $1M last week, it's far from the only piece worn by the princess to eclipse auction estimates.
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Bob Ross’s First On-Air Painting Could Fetch Nearly $10M
“A Walk in the Woods” (1983) was the first of 1,000 artworks created during the artist’s The Joy of Painting television show that ran on PBS for 11 years.
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N.C. Wyeth Painting Bought at Thrift Store for $4 Could Sell for $250K
The 1939 painting, one of four illustrations for a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, was hanging on a New Hampshire woman’s wall for years.
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Portrait of Marie Antoinette's Dog Skyrockets at Auction
Jacques Barthélémy Delamarre’s 18th-century canine portrait, said to depict the French queen’s beloved “Pompon,” sold for a whopping $280K.
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Rare Klimt Landscape Heads to Auction in New York
The artist’s plein-air painting of Austria's Lake Attersee could fetch up to $45M.
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The Unsettling Story Behind a Surrealist Painting Headed to Auction
"Composition Surréaliste,” painted by Remedios Varo with possible contributions from her lovers, centers love, lust, violence, and sexual autonomy.
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Hokusai’s “Great Wave” Makes a Splash at Auction
An edition of the iconic woodblock print broke records when it sold for $2.8M this week.
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NYC’s Flatiron Building Sells for a Whopping $190M
The sale to outsider bidder Jacob Garlick puts an end to the protracted legal battle between the iconic skyscraper’s five former owners.
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Lunar Bead Necklace and Asteroid "Emoji” Head to Auction
Christie’s bizarre sale features other space rocks propped up on stands like sculptures.
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Original Brueghel Found in French Home Heads to Auction
The rare painting is reportedly one of the largest of Brueghel the Younger’s known works.
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NYC’s Iconic Flatiron Building Is … Headed to Auction?
The sale is a last-resort move to resolve a bitter dispute between the building's owners.
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Burn Down the Patriarchy With this Eggplant Emoji Candle
The artwork by Pussy Riot creator Nadya Tolokonnikova is one of several in an auction benefiting reproductive health organizations.