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A Greek heiress is fighting a legal battle in Switzerland to find out what has become of a collection of Picasso, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and Degas art that she says should be part of her inheritance.
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A painting by Joan Miro sold for a record $37 million last night as billionaire buyers fought over the most desirable works and passed on lesser Impressionist and modern pieces.
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Russian buyers went on a shopping spree at a London auction last night that raised 84.9 million pounds ($136.6 million).
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Christie’s International sold $156 million of Impressionist and modern art last night in New York, less than half the year-ago total, as collectors and advisers lamented a scarcity of masterpieces.
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French painter Edouard Vuillard never married. He lived with his widowed mother, his self-proclaimed “muse,” until her death in 1928 when he was 60.
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The skinny pedestrian sculpted by Giacometti and sold this year for 65 million pounds (then $103.4 million) has a twin in the south of France.
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Helen Frankenthaler, who died today at 83 after a long illness, provided a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, with her lyric and gestural brushwork, bold color shapes and fluid, shimmering washes.
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A doll receives a brain transplant in a tailor shop, and a crucified pocket watch spews viscera -- welcome to the romantic-grotesque world of the Quay Brothers.
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In Vincent van Gogh ’s “Portrait of the Artist” (1887), his orange-red hair and beard glow so brightly against the dark-green background that it seems his head is on fire.
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