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• Diamond-encrusted Russian Czar auctioned for $1.3 million

  
  Born Rich — Authority: 673
  Sotheby’s auction house has sold a rare miniature portrait of the 18th-century Russian Czar, Peter the Great, in a diamond-encrusted frame. An Arizona family owned the miniature portrait in a diamond-encrusted frame for decades before they learned of its historic importance. Purchased in 1951 from a London dealer, ...
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• Kees van Dongens "Jeune Arabe" Sells for $13.8 Million

  
  one piece — Authority: 122
  “Jeune Arabe” (Young Arab) painted in 1910 by Van Dongen when the Dutch-born painter still remembered the coloristic fury of his Fauve days a few years earlier. The linear simplification has a Matisse touch about it. Its impact is multiplied...
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• Quote of the day: Sudler Sotheby’s CEO gets a word in about his eviction notice

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 144
  This week I called Sudler Sotheby’s International Realty CEO Sergio Martinucci to get his angle on the eviction he was handed last week by a company owned by investor Ross Hilton Kemper, owner of the Palmolive Building at Walton Street and Michigan Avenue . A suit filed against Sudler claims the brokerage ...
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• Louis Vuitton Supports the Red Cross & Auctions 6 Special Order Artist Editions

  
  If It's Hip, It's Here — Authority: 624
  Louis Vuitton Celebrates 150 Years of Excellence in Savoir-Faire With a Special Tribute to the Red Cross First off, throughout the month of November, Louis Vuitton, North America will be donating a percentage of sales on their US website of four iconic pieces; the Keepall, Speedy, Noe and Alma to the American Red ...
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• Record prices mark art sale boom

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 155
  Record prices mark art sale boom -1.0 5 2009-11-05 17:30:46 1stAngel A sale of Impressionist and Modern Art fetched more than than $180m (£108m) at an auction house in New York, marking an unexpected boom in the market. Top of the lots was a bronze sculpture by Italian artist Alberto Giacometti which ...
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• Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup

  
  Artstoile — Authority: 121
  Degas Pastel is Highlight of a Tepid Christie’s Sale (NY Times)On the Block:  Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices (NY Times)Van Gogh’s Personal Letters Debut Online in English (LA Times)New Street Signage Coming for Downtown LA Galleries (LA Times)Psychoanalyzing Twitter at the Rubin Museum of Art (WSJ)Asian ...
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• Prices Far Surpass Estimates at Sotheby’s Auction

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Of the 66 works offered in an Impressionist and modern art sale at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, only 10 failed to sell. The auction house sold $181.7 million worth of art.
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• Prices Far Surpass Estimates at Sotheby’s Auction

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  “Barque au Port de Collioure” by Derain went for $14 million at a sale Wednesday. It was a record for the artist at auction.
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• Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup

  
  Artstoile — Authority: 121
  Degas Pastel is Highlight of a Tepid Christie’s Sale (NY Times)On the Block:  Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices (NY Times)Van Gogh’s Personal Letters Debut Online in English (LA Times)New Street Signage Coming for Downtown LA Galleries (LA Times)Psychoanalyzing Twitter at the Rubin Museum of Art (WSJ)Asian ...
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• Auctions: Contemporary Art Evening and Day Sales, November 11 and 12, 2009 @Sothebys

  
  DLK COLLECTION — Authority: 501
  Sothebys Contemporary Art Evening and Day sales follow directly on the heels of those at Christies this season. There is only one photographic lot in the Evening sale (a Baldessari ); the rest of the contemporary photographs can be found in the Day sale. Quite a few of the images up for sale come from the collection ...
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• Weekly News Roundup: November 2 to 6

  
  WorthPoint — Authority: 130
  Starting out the week in art, antiques and collectibles news, we have letters from the roué Lord Byron, a really good thank-you for a job well done and royalty cash in the attic. From The Associated Press: Byron letters get nearly $460,000 at UK auction To put it delicately, Romantic poet Lord Byron was a ...
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• An artists speaks out against neo-orientalism

  
  Artworld Salon — Authority: 455
  In the wake of the October auctions in London, Kamrooz Aram wrote a piece about the appendage of “Arab and Iranian” artists to Sotheby’s sale of Contemporary Art (full disclosure: I assisted Aram in the editing of his piece and ushered it up online).  Aram rightly points out that this was of course not the ...
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• 10% of Commercial Sales To Owner-Users In First Half of 2009

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 551
  Business Week is reporting that 10% of commercial property transactions during the first half of 2009 were sales to owner-users. As rents and values have plummeted, users are stepping up to acquire assets and gain control of long term occupancy costs. An article by Business Week cites the recent purchase by ...
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• Gold Coast: Palm Beach Perfection

  
  GOLD NOTES — Authority: 108
  Gold Coast is a new real estate feature for this blog, focusing on notable homes for sale around the country. My goal in highlighting these properties is to inspire and delight you. Im starting with one of the countrys most famous coastal towns, Palm Beach. Last weekend, I visited the area for the first time, ...
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• How A New Real Estate Agent Found Success In 2009

  
  AgencyLogic PowerSites — Authority: 139
  New realtor finding success despite the tough housing market. Since December 2008, Johnson has had five closings and has one more in the works. She’s had a busy Fall, with eight listings ranging from $190,000 to $950,000. PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 30, 2009 – Helen Johnson has had a busy past year with ...
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• On the Block: Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Warhols “200 One Dollar Bills” (1962), from his first series of silk-screens, is the star of Sothebys postwar sale on Nov. 11.
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• Lord of the cha-ching! Lord Byron’s letters get record auction sum

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 590
  $ 458,000 for dead poet’s words SOURCE
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• Sotheby’s Imp/Mod Preview

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 149
  Emmanuel Di Donna hosts a preview of Sotheby’s November 4th sale of Impressionist and Modern art. (Click on the picture to see the video.)
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• Violent Auction [Pic Of The Day]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  [ A visitor casts a shadow on Violins Violence Silence by Bruce Nauman , one of the artworks on preview for Sothebys impressionist and modern art sale next week. Image via Getty ]
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• Warhol self-portrait up for grabs

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 155
  Warhol self-portrait up for grabs -1.0 5 2009-10-30 21:14:27 1stAngel A self-portrait of Andy Warhol that sat in a closet for more than 40 years will be auctioned in New York next month. The late artist gave the piece to Cathy Naso, a receptionist at his Factory studio, in 1967. She displayed the work ...
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