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A Sotheby's employee hangs a painting called 'Still Life ' by Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, displayed at Sotheby's auction house in London.

And if an art collection is finely honed, it accrues value at a greater rate. If I had walked off with one of my mother-in-law's Walking Man sculptures by Giacometti that so casually stalked her Palm Beach garden in the 60's, I could have been the seller of one of the weathered bronzes that recently took in $104 million at auction.

"Lighthouse Door" sold for $68,625 while "The Ruins of Fort MacAndrew sold for $42,000. Sotheby's were the auctioneers, and the auction set a record for Canadian art with sales in excess of $3 million.

Widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and one of the most influential technology leaders of his generation, Steven Paul 'Steve' Jobs history with Atari Inc.

A 'modele du collectionneur' desk by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, circa 1925. Signed. Estimate: 400,000 - 600,000 EUR.

A very rare Concetto Spaziale by Lucio Fontana of the Metalli series sold at 1,184,750. Photo: Sotheby's. MILAN.- Concetto Spaziale by Lucio Fontana, lacerations and graffiti on brass, has more than doubled its pre-sale estimate.

Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty, Maine's Leading Luxury and Waterfront Real Estate Company will host specialists from the Chinese Works of Art department at Sotheby's New York for private valuations in Portland, Maine on June 13th.

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LOS ANGELES _ For more than 30 years, California gallery owners have complained about the state's resale royalty law, which gives visual artists in certain cases a percentage of repeat sales of their artworks.

Sotheby's announced on Friday that it will be auctioning off what the auction giant says is the only known surviving Steve Jobs documents from his time at Atari .

On May 2, just a few weeks ago, an unnamed telephone bidder promised Sotheby's $119,922,500 for the 1895 version of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream, thus making it the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction.

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An understated green vase from China's Qianlong era is expected to fetch as much as $4.5 million at this weekend's Christie's sales.

An auction of Canadian art Sotheby's Canada on Thursday night in Toronto yielded a sale total of $3.5 million.

Arnold Bocklin, Odysseus and Polyphemus. Oil on panel, 66 by 150cm., 26 by 59in.

For more than 30 years, LaA JollansA could pass by the ivy-covered brick structure at the corner of Kline Street and Ivanhoe Avenue and only wonder at its storied contents.

The two began their real estate careers as owners of two real estate brokerages in New York.

An undated handout photo shows Cuban Wifredo Lam's ''Idolo '', to be auctioned at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday evening with an estimated sale price of between $2 million to $3 million.

Mexican artist Diego Rivera's "Girl in Blue and White" failed to find a buyer at Sotheby's Latin American art auction in New York.

Chilean painter Roberto Matta's "The revolt of opposites" fetched US$5 million at a New York auction devoted to Latin American art, setting a new record for the artist.