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This 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa became the most valuable car in the world when it sold for a record price of $16.4 million at Gooding & Company's Aug. 20 sale in Pebble Beach, CA.

$16.4 million Ferrari tops record-breaking vintage car auctions
ArtfixDaily Staff - August 22nd, 2011 21:23

A 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype raced to a record-breaking $16.4 million at a Gooding & Co. auction on Aug. 20. In a $80 million RM Auctions sale, a Mercedes-Benz set a record for the maker of...

Elmes, Willard Frederic, The Perfect Finish, 1929. Lithograph backed on linen. 36.25 x 43.75 inches.

Made in America: The Mather Work Incentive Posters
Release Date: 22 August 2011
By Jim Lapides. Printed in Chicago between 1923 and 1929, Mather Work Incentive posters were designed to improve worker productivity and curb turnover during a time of economic expansion and plentiful jobs. The traditional American virtues the posters promote are as relevant today as they were ...

Firooz Zahedi, Elizabeth Taylor/Odalisque I, 1976. Printed 2011. Chromogenic print, 32 x 46 inches.

Leila Heller Gallery To Exhibit at Art Platform – Los Angeles October 1 – 3, 2011
Release Date: 22 August 2011
Leila Heller Gallery will present a group exhibition of contemporary Middle Eastern artists living in the Diaspora at the first edition of Art Platform – Los Angeles, a new contemporary and modern art fair from October 1-3, 2011 at the L.A. Mart. The exhibition will feature new and recent ...

Sakiyama Takayuki, Open Twisting Sculpture with Ridged Banding, 2011. 14 x 16.5 x 19", stoneware with sand and orange glaze. From Joan B Mirviss LTD, New York NY.

Solid Crowds and Sales at 3rd Annual SOFA WEST: Santa Fe Art Fair 2011
Release Date: 22 August 2011
The 3rd annual Western edition of the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair; SOFA WEST: Santa Fe and its new Spotlight Presentation of The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art enjoyed a successful run August 4 - 7 at the Santa Fe Convention Center. Mark Lyman, President of The Art Fair ...

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	12th annual Maynard Dixon Country art show and sale presents new documentary Release Date: 22 August 2011 On August 26, 27 and 28, another Dixon (in the person of Leslie Dixon) will be on hand for the 12th annual Maynard Dixon Country art show and sale that benefits the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts. Leslie is a gifted screenwriter whose credits include the recent hit “Limitless” as well ... Read more

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