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Could Warhol's Marilyn Monroe break records for 20th century art?

Andy Warhol's iconic sage-blue background portrait of Marilyn Monroe is tipped to sell for a record-breaking $200 million at auction in the spring

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Original NASA shots of moon landing go up for auction in Denmark

The 74 photos are from several Apollo missions carried out by NASA

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Why is Michael Caine selling his personal items at a London auction?

Despite the pre-auction estimate for Sir Michael Caine’s gold Rolex being £12,000, the watch ended up selling for a whopping £125,250.

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Picasso, Rothko and Warhol for sale after billionaire couple's divorce

Real estate mogul Harry Macklowe's divorce from wife Linda has resulted in a potentially record-breaking Sotheby's auction of world-class art.

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Mexico calls on France to stop 'brazen' sale of pre-Hispanic artefacts

The President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador says French auction houses had gone beyond the pale with brazen sales of pre-Hispanic artefacts.

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Cézanne drawing lost for decades rediscovered in auction

The artist's lost notebook that he shared with his sister features the work, which was recently identified by art historians as an original.

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Botticelli's Jesus Christ portrait in record books after €40m sale

'Man of Sorrows' went on sale at Sotheby's New York on January 27, exceeding even the highest of expert deal estimates by millions of euros.

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'Dripping with blood': Anger as Moro kidnapping letter sold at auction

Critics have questioned whether the sale of the note -- claiming responsibility for abducting Italy's former PM -- is in good taste.

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Miniature Banksy model sells for over €1 million in UK auction

The small thatched model building was put up for sale by its British owners over fears it would one day be stolen.

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John Lennon's son auctions The Beatles memorabilia as NFTs

The certified digital artworks going under the hammer in California next month include the NFT version of the handwritten notes for the song 'Hey Jude', with an estimated price tag of up to €62,000.

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Sotheby's third 'Stone' series centres on Italy, mixing old with new

Bidding for the 'Stone III' sale closes on Wednesday evening and can be followed online.

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Diamond that came from meteorite to go on sale in London

The diamond is extremely rare and believed to have come from space via a "Don't Look Up" style meteorite encounter.

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Single page of a Spiderman comic sells for €3 million

A comic book panel featuring the superhero's transformation into the infamous Venom fetched the record breaking price at an auction in the US.

Art

Magritte masterpiece worth €52 million could shatter artist's record

Experts at Sotheby's estimate the Belgian surrealist's painting 'L’empire des lumières' will more than double his current auction record.

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Rare cassette of Prince album, scrapped for being 'evil', up for sale

First due for release in 1987, Prince scrapped the album because he thought it was cursed.

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First tuna auction of year at Toyosu fish market

The new year's first tuna auction was held at the Toyosu fish market in Tokyo, early on Wednesday morning. The top bid at the event was a bluefin tuna from Oma, Aomori prefecture, weighing in at 211 kilograms.

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'Merry Christmas': World's first SMS sells for €107,000 at NFT auction

Vodafone auctions the world's first SMS, sent in December 1992, in the form of a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), a certificate guaranteeing its ownership, for 107,000 euros.

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Garry Kasparov leads new NFT auction of star collectibles

Starting with chess champion Garry Kasparov, 1Kind will foster a relationship between stars and their fans using blockchain tech to make unique collectibles. They gave Euronews Culture an exclusive look at what's on sale.

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Wikipedia creator's computer and NFT up for auction at Christie's

Fancy treating yourself with the first historical modification of a Wikipedia page? It's now possible… as an NFT.

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Empress Josephine Bonaparte's 'highly rare' tiaras sell for €710,000

Both headpieces are set with gemstones engraved with classical heads, several of which are possibly dating back to the Roman era, as early as 100 BC, and were designed to be worn together.