In the private dining room of a Michelin-listed restaurant in east-central France, a small group of the world’s foremost wine authorities gathered reverently around a rather scruffy bottle, glasses at the ready. The object of ...
A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt will go up for sale next week, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair. The painting is one of 900 or so known ...
While Jane Austen is best known for skewering the vagaries of romantic love in her novels, there is another, equally complicated and meaningful type of relationship that runs through them, too — that of siblings. ...
Sotheby’s has postponed the controversial sale of a dazzling cache of jewels linked to the remains of the Buddha after India’s government slammed the auction and called for the gems’ return. In a statement emailed ...
Gullwing doors, a sophisticated straight-six engine and one of the most recognisable silhouettes in automotive history. The Mercedes-Benz 300SL is one of the sports-car greats, but this one is more special than most – and ...
One summer evening in 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde sat down for dinner at the Langham Hotel in London with J.M Stoddart, the American businessman and editor of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. By the time they ...
Basketball legend Michael Jordan won six NBA championships during his prolific sporting career — and a set of the six sneakers he wore when clinching those titles has sold for a record-breaking $8 million at ...
For those who appreciate the finer tipples in life, a bottle of the world’s “most sought-after Scotch whisky ” sold for more than £2.1 million ($2.7 million) Saturday at Sotheby’s in London. The Macallan 1926 ...
A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has sold for $51.705 million, becoming the most expensive car from the Italian manufacturer ever sold at auction. The record-breaking sale took place at Sotheby’s in New York on Monday ...
A rare portrait by celebrated painter Francis Bacon sold for £43.4 million ($52.8 million) at Sotheby’s London on Wednesday, the first time the artwork has been auctioned in its almost six-decade history.”Study for Portrait of ...
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