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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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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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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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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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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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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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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