British singer Elton John is set to sell his clothes for charity, at a public auction.
New York’s Rockefeller Center will host the event, where the singer hopes to raise funds and awareness to fight AIDs.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation will auction more than 10,000 articles of clothing belonging to the star, and his partner, David [...]

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DRUMSTICKS signed by Alex Van Halen and a Monty Python T-shirt are items that go under the hammer on Sunday 9 April at the 2006 Nederburg Auction Rare South African Finds charity event.
All proceeds will be shared by Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, Organ Donor Foundation and an AIDS-HIV-support NGO, called Mothers2Mothers.
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Contemporary Indian art is attracting new buyers, both among nonresident Indians and collectors on the subcontinent. Traditional Indian art sales have remained steady, while 20th-century art has been picking up admirers. Call it the attack of the billion-dollar global contemporary art market, or simply the recognition of the avant-garde’s originality by Asia’s nouveau riches.
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The works of 10 Indians, among them M.F. Husain and F.N. Souza, are to feature at a South East Asian Art Auction here next month and are expected to fetch between $10,000 and $360,000 a piece.
Husain’s 2005 canvas of Mother Teresa in the La Pieta posture, an image that haunted him long after he [...]

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Dubai’s Tecom outbid French Vivendi in a tender for 35 per cent of Tunisie Telecom, offering 3.05 billion Tunisian Dinars ($2.24bn) versus 2.76bn dinars offered by the French group, officials said at an open auction session.
Vivendi offered 2.44 billion dinars early this month ahead of Tecom’s 2.38bn, and the two companies were selected as [...]

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The work, which would have been worth about $6000 when it was painted, will be auctioned as part of Sotheby’s Fine Australian Art sale in Melbourne next month, where it is expected to fetch more than $500,000.
It is among 57 lots – with an estimated total value of up to $7.5 million – [...]

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Two paintings by great New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins sold for more than $A86,000 under the hammer at Bonhams and Goodman auction in Sydney last night.
Auctioneer Tim Goodman said it had been speculated that the Hodgkins’ works would go to a New Zealand bidder but they both sold to a local Sydney collector [...]

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An exclusive bag of presents given to George Clooney at this year’s Oscars has raised more than $45,000 (£26,000) at an online charity auction.
All actors who introduced award categories received the bag, containing items such as a pocket computer, a designer kimono and a pearl necklace.
The auction’s proceeds will go towards the relief [...]

Sotheby’s heavily emphasized its modern works in its sale of Indian and Southeast Asian art yesterday, which earned $13.6 million.This total was well above the high presale estimate of $10.7 million and set a record for the highest auction total ever for Indian and Southeast Asian art, according to the house.
The top lot of the [...]

Christie’s sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art yesterday totaled $10.9 million, highlighted by a 14th-century blue-and-white vase that sold for $2 million. The sale and two others held yesterday helped Christie’s to a single-day total of $20.1 million, the highest ever amount for a series of Chinese art sales in New York, [...]