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New high for Edvard Munch print thanks to artist’s personal touch

10 April 2013

A number of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) prints at the latest specialist prints sales in London showed how much buyers are in tune with the artist’s ‘personal touch’.

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New York Contemporary sales bring back feelgood factor

19 November 2012

The Contemporary art market rose to a new level last week as both Sotheby’s and Christie’s saw record sales in New York.

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Christie’s set record total for Contemporary art auction

15 November 2012

Making the most amount of money ever seen for a Contemporary art auction, Christie’s evening sale on November 14 made a staggering $363.5m (£237.6m) hammer.

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Haring and Basquiat foundations will no longer authenticate works

01 October 2012

In 2011, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts dissolved its controversial authentication board after a string of legal challenges. Now the equivalent foundations for both Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat have cut their ties with the art market and will no longer authenticate works.

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Christie’s secure exclusive deal to sell Warhol archive

17 September 2012

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has struck an exclusive deal with Christie’s to sell its enormous holdings of works from the artist’s estate.

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Warhol’s Brigitte Bardot with added Sachs appeal

24 May 2012

Sold at Sotheby’s in London this week, this Andy Warhol (1928-1987) portrait of Brigitte Bardot was formerly owned by her ex-husband, the German billionaire Gunter Sachs whose collection of art and furniture came to auction following his suicide last year.

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Munch’s masterpiece for sale

27 February 2012

THE term ‘masterpiece’ is all too commonplace in auctioneering hyperbole, but just occasionally it rings true.

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Still canvas lifts New York’s Contemporary week

14 November 2011

A SERIES of key consignments at the latest Contemporary art auctions helped lift the mood of the art market in New York.

Legal costs kill off Andy Warhol Foundation's vetting board

25 October 2011

THE Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts have decided to dissolve the controversial Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board in early 2012.

Double Denied – the dispute that closed the Warhol authentication service

25 October 2011

A LONG-running anti-trust complaint against the Andy Warhol Foundation – one that caused them to close the authentication service – concerned a work denied twice by their board.