A painting by the artist Banksy honoring UK healthcare workers has set a new record for the artist, selling for £16.7 million ($23.1 million) at Christie’s in London.”Game Changer,” which the enigmatic street artist donated ...
A painting of Paris by Vincent van Gogh, which has almost never been seen by the public after being stashed within a French family’s private collection for more than a century, has finally been unveiled.”Street ...
A small floral bowl bought at a yard sale in Connecticut for just $35 has been identified as an exceptionally rare 15th-century Chinese antique.The intricate blue-and-white artifact, which features motifs of lotus, peony, chrysanthemum and ...
An “ultra-rare” purple-pink diamond is set to go under the hammer, with auction house Sotheby’s estimating that it could fetch up to $38 million. The 14.83-carat stone, dubbed “The Spirit of the Rose,” will go ...
Hong Kong—Like almost everything else in 2020, the sale of two jewels expected to go for millions at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels sale in Hong Kong Wednesday didn’t go as planned. Ahead of the sale, the ...
On Monday evening an exceptionally rare 102.39-carat diamond made auction history as the first gem of its quality to be sold without a reserve. With a live auction taking in online and phone bids, the ...
Three Banksy paintings have been sold at auction for $2.9 million, with proceeds earmarked for a Palestinian hospital. The lot, titled “Mediterranean Sea View 2017,” comprises three reworked oil paintings depicting romantic seascapes, to which ...
A cognac from a 1762 vintage sold for £118,580 ($146,000) at an online auction. The “exceedingly rare” Gautier cognac is one of the oldest surviving cognacs in the world, and only three bottles of it are ...
A golf-themed cocktail set from 1926 is expected to sell for as much as $7,000 at a special Sotheby’s auction marking the 100th anniversary of the start of Prohibition in the US. The online auction, titled ...