The Art That Benz Bought
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The Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin opens its doors on Sept. 22 for an exhibition of 400 works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection (until Jan. 23, 2005).
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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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DALLAS - An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.
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A brazen armed robbery team steals two world-famous paintings. Now what do they do with them? By Les Christie, CNN/Money contributing writer.
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By KEITH POWERS  This is an art story.  A lady trucker wants to cheer up a friend with the blues. She goes into a thrift shop and buys the ugliest painting she can find for $5, just to give her friend a laugh.
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An $8 million Jean-Michel Basquiat painting whose last known owner was a bankrupt Brazilian banker has been found in a Manhattan warehouse, The Associated Press reported. Federal prosecutors filed papers seeking to seize the 1982 work, âHannibal,â which was valued at $100 on a customs declaration form when it arrived by courier from London at Kennedy Airport after apparently being smuggled out of Brazil. Prosecutors are seeking to help Brazilian authorities claim the painting, whose last known owner was Edemar Cid Ferreira, former owner of Banco Santos and one of Brazilâs foremost art collectors. The bank went bankrupt in 2005, leaving debts of more than $1 billion. Mr. Ferreira was convicted of money laundering and bank fraud, and sentenced to 21 years in prison; a Brazilian court ordered seizure of $20 million to $30 million worth of his art, saying it was bought with proceeds of illegal schemes, but âHannibalâ was missing.
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The black and white photograph from pre-war Germany shows an affluent and important banker sitting beneath one of the important paintings in his treasured collection of art.
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A collection of work by artist L S Lowry, valued at half a million pounds, is to go on sale in Birmingham.
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The visionary art dealer Siegfried Bing, who popularized the arts of the Orient in 19th-century Europe and America and whose gallery gave its name to the Art Nouveau movement, is the subject of a major exhibition which has just opened at the Van Gogh museum.
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A Vincenzo Maria Pellegrini painting was donated to Bank of Valletta. The presentation of the painting was made by Gabriel A. Pellegrini to BOV Chairman, Joseph F X Zahra.
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The spectacular art collection of a German multi-millionaire goes on show Wednesday amid a raging debate about the source of his fortune: an inheritance from his grandfather, a top Nazi industrialist.
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A fund-raising drive secures one of Turner's finest watercolours for the UK.
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Just two days after New York&#39;s Museum of Modern Art closed its spectacularly successful temporary exhibit in Berlin, the spotlight turned to another attention-grabbing art display in the German
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BERLIN: A show of modern art belonging to the millionaire grandson of a convicted Nazi industrialist has opened in Berlin to a row over whether the owner had done enough to atone for his family history.
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This week the Metropolitan Museum confirmed that a work by Damien Hirst will go on view in its modern and contemporary art galleries by Labor Day weekend. It will be there for two to three years.
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Art experts are certain that a picture discovered in the warehouse of Berlin's Gealdegalerie is of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart painted a year before he died.
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A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to Â£100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery.