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HUGH GRANT was drunk when he bought the ANDY WARHOL painting of ELIZABETH TAYLOR which made him 11million.

NEW YORK, NY .- Sotheby's hopes that the fervent mood at an auction this week in London of important Old Master paintings will travel overseas when several rare art works will be auctioned next month.

A RARE painting of one of Derbyshire's most historic buildings is expected to fetch up to 50,000 at auction.

Sotheby's hopes that the fervent mood at an auction this week in London of important Old Master paintings will travel overseas when several rare art works will be auctioned next month.

A ROMAN sarcophagus panel that once belonged to French writer Emile Zola sold for well over its estimated value on Thursday, going for US$1.5 million , auction house Sotheby's said.

PIECE OF HISTORY: Dresses worn by actress Audrey Hepburn are displayed at a press preview of the Tanja Star-Busman collection of Hepburn memorabilia at Sotheby's in New York.

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A 100-year-old copy of Anne of Avonlea will also go on the block but is expected to fetch only half as much.

Central Park eatery plans to sell thousands of items, from crystal chandeliers to dinnerware, to the highest bidder on Jan.

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"Iceberg, Baffin's Bay North", by Group of Seven founder Lawren Harris. Photograph by: Courtesy of Heffel Fine Art Auction House , Courtesy of Heffel Fine Art Auction House Following last week's sale of two prize sketches by Canadian artists Tom Thomson and Lawren Harris, for $2.8-million and $3.5-million, respectively, a collector exiting the ...

Tomorrow's headlines will not trumpet the sale of Graham Coughtry's Two Figures VIII at Sotheby's sale of Canadian art in Toronto tonight.

Dozens of garments and personal effects once belonging to the gorgeous, charming deceased movie star Audrey Hepburn will be auctioned in London next week, according to media reports Wednesday.

Four Russian art sales in London this week are expected to raise A 55m as Russian oligarchs return with petrodollars burning a hole in their pockets.

On an unseasonably warm December afternoon 10 years ago tomorrow, everyone who was anyone in the obsessive world of watch collecting - formally known as horology - packed Sotheby's seventh-floor, wood-paneled auction gallery in New York.

PIECE OF HISTORY: Dresses worn by actress Audrey Hepburn are displayed at a press preview of the Tanja Star-Busman collection of Hepburn memorabilia at Sotheby's in New York.

Figures for an upcoming Russian art auction are sharply down from a year ago, reflecting how financial turmoil and falling stock and property values have hit super-wealthy collectors from Russia and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union.

One of the books most coveted by collectors of Canadian literary history - a first edition copy of Anne of Green Gables - is to be sold next week at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

A collection of dresses and other wardrobe treasures worn by film star and style icon Audrey Hepburn is on show in Paris this week ahead of a charity auction at Sotheby's in London.

It's the latest row over one of the world's most famous children's toys. Barbie, has been given a makeover, wearing a burkha.