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Picasso’s 1932 painting “Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (Nude, Green Leaves and Bust).”Picasso scores world record art price
Bloomberg - May 5th, 2010 01:42
Pablo Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” garnered $106.5 million Tuesday night at Christie’s International in New York, the highest amount ever paid for an artwork at auction. The coveted painting, from a series of Picasso's mistress Marie-Therese Walter, usurped the $104.2 million record set at Sotheby’s in New York in 2004 for a 1905 Picasso painting, “Garcon a la Pipe.” Estimated at $70 million to $90 million, the Picasso came from the ...

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Hendrix's Last Basement by Dexter Dalwood Photo: PA
Less controversial, more beautiful is the overall consensus on the output of this year's artists shortlisted for Britain's most prestigious contemporary art prize. The Turner ...
The James Beekman Chippendale chest, New York, circa 1752, estimated at $200/600,000, sold for $1,428,000.
A record price for New York furniture was set at Leigh Keno's inaugral auction last weekend. The James Beekman Chippendale carved mahogany chest of drawers from the shop of Thomas ...
Singer Taylor Swift attends the Costume Institute Gala Benefit to celebrate the opening of the "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 3, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
About 725 elegantly-attired guests attended the star-studded gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night for the Costume Institute exhibition “American Woman: Fashioning a ...
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Hugh Mesibov, Dialogue in Armor, 1944, 30 x 24 inches.Hugh Mesibov, The Wartime Shipyard, Surrealist Works of 1942/45, Paintings and Drawings
May 4-22, 2010
Susan Teller Gallery
NEW YORK, New York
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PARRISH, Maxfield, illustrator . WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937). Italian Villas and their Gardens.Gray's Auctioneers Fine Printed Books Auction- May 6 ,2010, 1 pm
Release Date: 30 April 2010
Gray’s Auctioneers presents its first Fine Printed Books Auction, to be held Thursday May 6, 2010 at 1 pm, in which travel guides, illustrated books, art books, modern first editions, and sets are all well-represented. Among the highlights of the sale is a third edition of Mary ...

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