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Imagine finding a super-valuable painting in your attic or at a flea market. While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered ...

Over the last 15 years, prices paid at auction houses for paintings, sculptures and other art have skyrocketed, setting ever-higher bars for the most expensive art sold at auctions. Owning art has ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting has sold for a record $236 million at a Sotheby’s auction. That sale set a record for a modern art piece, and is the second most expensive painting sold in history.

Nearly a month after Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” was sold for $450 million, the buyer has finally been revealed. Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism confirmed Monday it purchased ...

(CNN) — What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a ...