The Mark Rothko abstract painting “Orange, Red, Yellow” has set a new auction record for contemporary art, fetching nearly $87 million in a sale that showed the strength of the art market despite global economic gloom.
Edward Munch's famous painting "The Scream" fetched $120 million at Sotheby's in New York Wednesday, making it the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. The bidder was not identified.
France has expelled of group of radical Islamists. It's all part of a crackdown on extremists following last month's attacks in Toulouse and Montauban. Meanwhile, it looks like many people may not even bother to vote in the presidential elections - a poll says the abstention rate in the first round could reach 32%. Finally, the auction of torture instruments that belonged to a French executioner gets the chop after complaints.
Such iconic items as Charlie Chaplin's cane and a Superman suit are on offer at a "Hollywood Legends" auction this weekend, along with a riding jacket worn by Clark Gable in "Gone With the Wind" and Charlton Heston's robe from "The Ten Commandments".
A version of Edvard Munch's iconic painting "The Scream" will go on sale May 2 at the Sotheby's auction house in New York, where it is expected to yield at least $80 million.
A landscape by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt fetched $40 million at Sotheby’s Wednesday, topping a record-breaking sale that auctioneers said marked a heartening turnaround for the art market.
An amateur wine group paid a record 57,000 euros ($77,000) for a 1773 bottle of "yellow" wine from France's eastern Jura region at a local wine festival auction Saturday. A sherry-like wine, the grapes were harvested under the reign of Louis XVI.
This week our fashion reporter Jessica Michault, is here to talk about what it takes to dress a Princess, royal jewellery auctions, and Beyoncé's new commercial for her new perfume "HEAT" banned by the British Advertising Standard Authority.
At a Christie's auction sale on Tuesday, one of the fifty remaining Apple-1 computers was sold for a record value of 133,250 pounds (around 157,390 euros). It was the first computer designed by Steve Jobs and cost 666,66 US dollars back in 1976.
France leading contemporary art fair, Fiac, kept its promises this year with great artists, and great sales. Though China edged out France as the 3rd largest art auction market, optimism is rising again. Was Paris auction a positive test for art market recovery?
