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"Why these rare and extremely important 18th-century vases prompted our specialist to advise their owner to sit down before it was explained what they might be worth."

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"Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer from 1963 (estimate: $50–70million) — a central highlight of Christie’s May 17 Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York…

"When Greta Garbo left Hollywood for New York in 1941, she reinvented herself as a serious collector of contemporary art. On 15 May in New York, we offer three works that hung in the Hollywood…

"Inside the Tokyo creative space of an artist celebrated for his canvases peopled by anime-inspired, otherworldly figures with haunting eyes."

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"Clara Rivollet admires a prodigious abstract work by the Beijing-born, Paris-based artist which has been in private hands for almost 50 years."

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"Carved for the tomb of a king, and shrouded in mystery for more than 200 years, the Beauneveu Lions were commissioned in the 14th century by Charles V of France for his tomb at the abbey of St.…

"The highlight of 20th Century Week at Christie’s in London, Max Beckmann’s Hölle der Vögel (Birds’ Hell) hammered down for £36,005,000 / $45,834,365 (with premium), setting a new world auction…

"Head of Ancient Art & Antiquities Laetitia Delaloye examines an early 6th-century BC vessel attributed to the Carpenter Painter."

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