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Pablo Picasso’s cherry-red musketeer painting “Homme a l’epee” has been sold for a whopping $11.5 million, the highest price of the season, and it leads Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist & Modern Art. With the pre-sale estimates of between...
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A Sotheby’s employee walks through a room laid out with lots from Gianni Versace’s bedroom, at the auction house’s offices in London, Thursday March 12, 2009. The pieces are part of Sotheby’s ‘Sale of Property from Gianni Versace’s Lake Como...
