Auction records

• (Newser) – The modern art market is boiling hot right now.
(Newser)
• Lichtensteins Sleeping Girl, depicting a woman with closed eyes and flowing blond hair, fetched $44,882,500; Weiweis 1-ton, handmade porcelain Sunflower Seeds brought $782,500.
(Daily Telegraph)
• trumpeted the headlines "Most valuable post-war and contemporary art auction ever" and "14 new world auction records set" and "41 works sell above $1 million; 9 works above $10 million." It's probably a smart move.
(Des Moines Register)
• NextLot's online auction platform is really providing one particular heavy equipment auctioneer with excellent results as of late.
(PRLog (free press release))
• The sale, which capped two weeks of sales at Sothebys and rival Christies that were marked by numerous records including the most expensive work ever sold at auction, took in $266,591,000, against a pre-sale estimate of $215 million to $304 million.
(msnbc.com)
• :Freemans marathon day of auctions on April 30 — American furniture, silver, folk and decorative arts followed by the Historic USS Constitution Colors from the collection of H.
(Antiques and Arts Weekly)
• The annual auction, which has been organized for 20 years by Harrows Auctions Inc. in Tampa, brought the district $206,906, records show. Russell believes the bottom line should have been double that.
(St. Petersburg Times)
• Adolf Hitler farted uncontrollably, used cocaine to clear his sinuses, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido. The U.S.
(Lez Get Real)
• Princess Dianas childhood music collection will be sold at auction.
(Monsters and Critics)