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5 Priciest Artworks Ever Auctioned

Matt Cantor — Sun, 06 May 2012 08:38:43 CDT

Following the record-breaking sale of Edvard Munch's The Scream , the Guardian takes a look at the other biggest sales of art at auction. The top five: Edvard Munch, The Scream , $119.9 million. Pablo Picasso, Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust , $106.5 million. Alberto Giacometti, L'homme qui Marche I , $105....

Rush Limbaugh Bust: Yours for $15K

Kevin Spak — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:01:16 CST

Cheer up, Limbaugh fans. Sure, your favorite rotund radio host is losing advertisers left and right , but at least he's being inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians , and you can own a piece of that history. The sculptor producing Limbaugh's bust for the Hall will make an additional six...

Netherlands' Angel Statue Will Take Your Call

Matt Cantor — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:59:51 CST

A Dutch town has a guardian angel—and her cell phone gets 30 calls a day. The Little Angel, a sculpture outside the ancient St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in 'S Hertogenbosch, was born out of a 1997 design contest to replace the church's worn-down figures. In addition to the...

Andy Warhol Grows Old in New Sculpture

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:23:00 CDT

Had Andy Warhol survived gallbladder surgery, he would have turned 83 on Saturday—a very, very old 83. At least that's how artist Edgar Askelovic imagines him: with bloated legs, lots of wrinkles, and toothless, but still with a shock of white hair. Askelovic, 23, used silicone and clay to...

Thieves Offer Scrap Dealer $1M Sculpture for $65

Rob Quinn — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:43:54 CST

A Spanish gang of late contenders for the "Dumbest Criminal of 2010" award offered to sell a scrap merchant an iron sculpture worth close to $1 million ... for just $65, police say. The artwork, by Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida, has been recovered, along with works by Pablo Picasso and Fernando...

Model for Michelangelo's Pieta Found

Matt Cantor — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:31:01 CST

A US art historian says he’s found the model for Michelangelo's great statue the Pieta at the Vatican, the Daily Telegraph reports. An Italian art collector picked up the 12-inch terracotta model at an antiques shop; before restoration, it was covered in paint and dotted with Scotch tape. But long...

Nazi-Era Trove of 'Degenerate Art' Discovered

Rob Quinn — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:50:00 CST

A stash of sculptures that survived both the Nazis and Allied firebombing has been found by workers digging a new subway line in Berlin. The sculptures, all from early 20th-century artists, were on a list of "degenerate" artworks shunned by the Nazis for having Jewish or otherwise non-German influences and...

Giacometti Sculpture Sells for Record $104.3M

Nick McMaster — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:55:00 CST

Alberto Giacometti's "Walking Man I" sculpture has sold at Sotheby's for $104.3 million, breaking the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. The previous record-holder was Picasso's "Boy With a Pipe," which sold for $104.2 million 6 years ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. The...

Senegal's $30M Statue May Need to Add Clothes

Nick McMaster — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:44:17 CST

Senegal's government is considering taking action against one of its most prominent women for a hemline that's too high—by about 30 feet. Having spent $30 million on a giant statue of an African family meant to tower over the capital Dakar, President Abdoulaye is considering a costly revision because...