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Emily Carr painting bought for $50 at barn sale could bring $148,000 at auction

The Art Newspaper

The 1912 painting is believed ot have been gifted by the artist to friends who later moved to the Hamptons, where a discerning dealer nabbed it decades later for a bargain

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Amid 'more selective, more cautious' market, Christie's Hong Kong sale notches $134m

The Art Newspaper

The firm's first major sale in its new Hong Kong headquarters saw spirited bidding for contemporary works and regional records for paintings by Van Gogh and Monet

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Price of rediscovered Emily Carr painting bought for $50 surges nearly 500,000% at Toronto auction

The Art Newspaper

The Carr painting was one of the star attractions at the Heffel Fine Art Auction House’s marquee autumn sale, alongside works by Tom Thomson, Marcelle Ferron, Kenojuak Ashevak and Chief 7IDANsuu James Hart

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting thought to be lost for decades goes on display in Basel

The Art Newspaper

The oil painting, which depicts two people performing the cakewalk—a dance that originated among enslaved African Americans in the 19th century—is last thought to have been exhibited in Berlin in 1923. The soldiers left the crate and painting behind, and the work remained in the same family ownership until its recent sale.

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£10m Botticelli leads London's pre-Christmas Old Master sales

The Art Newspaper

Nine bidders competed for the 15th century painting of a Virgin and child at Sotheby's, while Zoffany, Tiepolo and Van Dyck topped auctions at Bonhams and Christie's

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Koons lobster snapped up amid day two sales at Art Basel

The Art Newspaper

White Cube sold Michael Armitage’s 2015 painting In the garden for $3.2m, while Gagosian placed a large lobster sculpture by Jeff Koons for “seven figures”. Pace’s Pablo Picasso painting Homme à la pipe assis et amour (1969), priced at $30m, is still on reserve, though the gallery did say it sold a 1964 bronze by Louise Nevelson for $850,000.

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Magritte painting could bring more than $95m at Christie's marquee New York sales this autumn

The Art Newspaper

If it goes for the auction house's estimate, "L'empire des lumières" (1954), from the collection of late interior designer Mica Ertegun, would set an auction record for the Surrealist artist