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Elvis Presley’s White Knabe Grand Piano Expected to Bring $1,000,000+ at Auction

MEMPHIS, TN.- Elvis Presley's beloved White Knabe Grand Piano, as featured in his music room at Graceland from 1957 to 1969, is expected to bring $1,000,000+ as the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Elvis Memorabilia Auction, Aug. 14...

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Art News | 07.31.10 | No Comments

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Winston Churchill’s Choppers Sold at Auction in England

LONDON (AP).- A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill — described as the teeth that saved the world — sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.) The upper dentures, one of several sets specially ...

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Art News | 07.30.10 | No Comments

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Dora Carrington Drawing Scooped for Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum

LONDON.- Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum has acquired an important topographical drawing by celebrated artist Dora Carrington (1893 – 1932), who attended Bedford High School as a child. Bedford Market (1911) was acquired at auction fo...

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Art News | 07.28.10 | No Comments

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For Sale: Jewels Britain’s King Edward VIII Showered on U.S. Lover

LONDON (REUTERS).- Jewels bought by Britain's King Edward VIII for his American wife Wallis Simpson are expected to fetch up to 3 million pounds ($4.55 million) at auction in November, Sotheby's said on Thursday. The king, who renounced his claim to ...

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Art News | 07.24.10 | No Comments

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Roy Rogers’ Stuffed Horse Sold to Nebraska TV Station

NEW YORK (AP).- A Nebraska cable TV network ponied up $266,500 for Roy Rogers' stuffed and mounted horse, Trigger, at an auction in New York City on Wednesday. The movie cowboy's faithful companion was bought by the cable company RFD-TV in Omaha, Neb...

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Art News | 07.16.10 | No Comments

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J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Turner Masterpiece at Sotheby’s for Record $45.10 Million

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W Turner's masterpiece painting Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino. The auction took place at Sotheby's in London on Wednesday, July 7. O...

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Art News | 07.9.10 | No Comments

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Gallery Launches Appeal to Secure First British Portrait of a Black African Muslim

LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery today launches, with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Art Fund, an appeal to acquire for the nation the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave, and the first portrait that hon...

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Art News | 07.8.10 | No Comments

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