PARIS (AP) — An old painting found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman, who considered it an icon of little importance, has made her a multimillionaire. The work, a masterpiece attributed to the 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue that was discovered earlier this year, sold for 24 million euros …
A Banksy artwork depicting MPs in the House of Commons as chimpanzees has been sold for almost £9.9 million, in what organisers say is a record for the street artist. Devolved Parliament, which is four metres wide, was first unveiled as part of the Bristol artist’s exhibition Banksy vs Bristol Museum in 2009. It went under …
NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (UPI) — A vast collection of historical Chinese art including more than 120 artifacts from New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is expected to fetch at least $23 million next week at Sotheby’s. The seven live auctions, which include 1,200 items, kick off on Saturday and …
July 21 (UPI) — The original NASA videotapes of the Apollo 11 moon walk were auctioned off for $1.82 million on the 50th anniversary of the feat. NASA intern Gary George paid $217.77 for those three tapes and other NASA footage at a government surplus auction in 1976, Sotheby’s house said …
July 17 (UPI) — A gold medal carried by NASA astronaut Neil Armstrongduring the Apollo 11 moon mission sold for more than $2 million on Wednesday. The medal — one of only three minted for the mission’s crewmembers including Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin — sold for $2,055,000 as part of the Armstrong Family Collection by …
Babe Ruth broke about every record there was in baseball during his Hall of Fame career. Why not add a memorabilia record to that list? A rare game-worn jersey from the Sultan of Swat sold at auction Saturday for a record $5.64 million — the most pricey piece of sports memorabilia ever. …
June 11 (UPI) — Egyptian officials have asked Christie’s auction house in London to forgo the sale of a statue of Tutankhamun, saying it was stolen from Egypt and should be returned. Christie’s is planning to auction the more-than 3,000-year-old bust of the boy pharaoh on July 4 for an estimated $5 …
LONDON (Reuters) – British auction house Sotheby’s plans to sell on Tuesday what it says is a “substantial” lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair that the German composer himself cut off and gave to a pianist friend in 1826. The lock is expected to fetch up to 15,000 pounds ($19,000) …
LONDON (AP) — A chess piece purchased for 5 pounds ($7.50) by an antiques dealer in Scotland in 1964 has been identified as one of the 900-year-old Lewis Chessmen, among the greatest artifacts of the Viking era. Sotheby’s auction house said Monday that the chess piece is expected to bring …
(Reuters) – The detailed manual used by U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the moon in 1969 is going up for auction in July and could fetch up to $9 million, New York auctioneers Christie’s said on Wednesday. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book flown …
For sale on eBay: what’s claimed to be “maybe the only” young Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered for $2.95 million. Paleontologists decried the sale, saying that the specimen’s cost was artificially inflating the cost of other valuable fossils. “Only casts and other replicas of vertebrate fossils should be traded, not the fossils themselves,” an …
For generations, the document was in the possession of a Union general’s family. “ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIED THIS MORNING at 22 minutes after seven,” reads the telegram from April 15, 1865, that announced the U.S. president’s death to the outside world. After being held by the family of a Union general for …
