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Rare Book Review- With a Cover Story Written By Yours Truly

As some of you may be aware, I know a thing or two about collectible comic books. Because of that knowledge, last month I was asked to write a large piece about collectible comics for a magazine from the UK … Continue reading

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Banksy + Kate Moss = Big Bucks

They were going for $20,000 not so long ago. £96,000 is a long way away from $20,000. Check it out: A screenprint of model Kate Moss by artist Banksy fetched three times its estimated price at an auction last night … Continue reading

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Rare Raphael work up for auction (and the estimate better be low.)

Christies has an estimate of around $30 million for the painting and if a Raphael portrait really does sell for that, not even half the recent Rothko and Warhol record sales, then I’m going to be very cross with the … Continue reading

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Something is terribly wrong with this world.

A Francis Bacon painting smashed the auction record for postwar art last night in New York, fetching $52.7 million. Its reign lasted just 10 minutes, before being trumped by a Mark Rothko work that went for $72.8 million. Not to … Continue reading

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