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The Bridge leads art and philately auctions between Milan and Paris in late 2025

The second half of 2025 sees Il Ponte Auction House consolidating its position on the international art sales scene with an articulated and diversified calendar embracing philately, painting, sculpture, oriental art and 20th-century design. The appoi...
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New Piguet auction: the second part of the Savoy's numismatic collection

Auction house Piguet announces the second part of the numismatic collection that belonged to Princess Marie-Gabrielle of Savoy, heiress of the Italian royal house. The new sales round follows the success of the first part, which concluded between Jun...
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Sotheby's, Gustav Klimt portrait sold for 200 million: it's the most expensive modern work ever

The inaugural auction of Sotheby's new global headquarters, housed in the Breuer Building on New York's Madison Avenueof Nov. 18 and comprising 24 lots, marked a significant moment for the international market. The evening sale dedicated to collector...
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Egon Schiele, 3.23 million euros for a drawing at Dorotheum

The record sale of a drawing by Egon Schiele (Tulln, 1890 - Vienna, 1918) captured the attention of the art market during theevening auction of Modern Art held at the Dorotheum on Nov. 18, 2025. Lot number 3, Crouching Nude, Back view of 1917, was th...
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Lempertz, Old Masters and Renaissance Italy at auction in Cologne.

Lempertz returns to the spotlight in Cologne with its traditional fall auction devoted to old masters and nineteenth-century paintings, scheduled for Nov. 22. The German house will present a selection of 190 lots spanning centuries of European art hi...
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Germany, millions of visitors but declining turnover for shopping galleries: the study

Germany's art galleries are in severe economic distress but still constitute a dynamic cultural fabric capable of producing thousands of exhibitions and attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors. This, in a nutshell, is what emerges from the Galer...
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He buys work at market for 150 pounds and discovers he has a Dalí. Now goes to auction estimated at 30,000

A forgotten work by Salvador Dal í, purchased for 150 pounds, the equivalent of just under $200 at a yard sale in the United Kingdom, is set to be auctioned at an estimated valuation of up to 200 times its initial price on Oct. 23 at the Cheff...
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The VAT revolution in the Italian art market: the new prospects for the sector

The landscape of the Italian art market has always been a complex interweaving of culture, passion and, inevitably, legal discipline of the sector. For years, operators and insiders have reported a gradual contraction of the sector, often blamed on o...
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