Klimt portrait sets new modern art record at $236.4 million New York auction
Most of us can recognise a Klimt. His work is enormously popular in reproduction, but originals are precious beyond belief. Find out how this example just set a new world record.
2025-11-20
Winston Churchill’s Marrakech painting makes over £700,000 in Canada store sale
Buying Churchill’s artwork has proved the most lucrative way to collect the Prime Minister’s life, and a sale by a shuttered business has made big news in Canada.
Patek Philippe wristwatch sets record for brand with $17.6 million sale
A rather humble finish in stainless steel on this legendary Swiss watch is one of the reasons it’s so rare and so valuable. It sold this week for a huge, record-setting price.
2025-11-19
Wicked Witch’s hat tipped for multi-million Wizard of Oz sale
A hat worn on screen in The Wizard of Oz by the Wicked Witch of the West will be auctioned next month when it could sell for millions of dollars. […]
Bob Ross painting receives $1 million bid
Bob Ross inspired countless people to take up art. What an achievement! Now Ross’s paintings will help save the broadcasting networks that helped him to fame.
Waterloo looted Napoleon hat pin sells for 17 times estimate at £3.3-million-plus auction
Waterloo was a terrible, bloody end to Napoleon’s sometimes glorious military career. As he fled to Paris, Prussian officers went through his possessions – one of them took this jewelled pin.
2025-11-13
Ancient Egypt in the sale room: buy your own sarcophogi in Paris auction
Ancient Egypt still fascinates us, and the chance to buy a genuine relic from that distant time rarely comes up. Big buyers will no doubt be in Paris on November 18 for this major sale.
2025-11-12
Pioneering Channel-swim Rolex makes £1.3 million at auction
This watch was one of the first big-name sports endorsements and it helped to make the Rolex Oyster a legendary watch. Find out more here.
Debut sale for $1-million original Star Wars poster painting
The original painting for the best-known poster of the first Star Wars film is for sale for the first time with a $1-million starting price next month. The poster for […]
Flowerbed find of Tudor coins the New Forest Hoard sells for nearly £400,000
As an incentive to get your garden in order how’s this? One couple set out to mend their fence posts and have ended up seeing the Tudor coins they found sell for hundreds of thousands.
£1.8 million for giant golden ducat as £100 million coin collection sales continue
As a Hapsburg, Ferdinand III had money to burn, which is what he used these giant gold coins for. As Europe burned again, the coin was collected and hidden during WWII.
2025-11-07
Bowie’s Aladdin Sane portrait sets new album-art record at nearly £400,000
Bowie, on a stool, when a makeup artist suggests a lightning flash on his face and the photographer says “make it bigger”. So was born a legendary image that has just been sold.
2025-11-05
Winston Churchill letter to his first love for sale
Imprisoned after some typically devil-may-care war reporting in South Africa, Churchill wrote to the woman who was probably his first love.
Boba Fett’s blaster targets another big Star Wars auction sale
A Boba Fett original is bound to get Star Wars fans up into orbit. This gun from The Empire Strikes back is a one-off with a generational price tag.
Superman’s debut comic soars to $3 million-plus before auction
They printed around 1 million copies of this debut magazine featuring a super-popular new hero. But, they asked kids to cut off the back page and intact examples are worth a mint.
