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T-Rex skeleton set for auction an ‘art installation’
Palaeontologist Thomas Holtz terms it "misleading" to combine multiple real bones from different individuals to create a single skeleton.
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Microsoft co-founder’s art to fetch US$1bn at auction
Expected to fetch more than $1 billion at the two-day sale in New York, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's art collection will be up for grabs at Christie's at a time when experts say the super wealthy are viewing art as a safe investment this year amid a tumultuous global... -
Christie’s to auction Paul Allen’s $1bn art collection
The November sale of more than 150 pieces spanning 500 years of art will be "the largest and most exceptional art auction in history," Christie's said in a statement. -
‘The Rock’ diamond goes under the hammer
The Rock, currently in the hands of an unnamed owner from North America could break records at a sale in Geneva. -
Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetches $195m
The painting beat the previous record for a 20th-century work, Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers, which sold for $179.4 million in 2015. -
Marilyn Monroe portrait may fetch $200m at auction
Christie's said it expects Andy Warhol's 1964 "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" to become the most expensive 20th century artwork when it goes under the hammer in New York in May. -
Art sales rebound to an all-time high of $2.7 billion after Covid-19 slump
Sales soared between June 2020 and June 2021 as auctioneers quickly adopted a more online approach.