An unemployed US man was browsing at his local thrift store for items he could restore and resell when he spotted a Picasso poster. He handed over $14.14 for what he saw as a nice commercial print.
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Top 10 art auction record-breakers
Thursday 03 May 2012
A version of Edvard Munch's classic masterpiece The Scream has fetched a record-breaking $119.9 million (£74 million), making it the most expensive work of art to be sold at auction.
World's most prolific art forger 'just did it for fun'
Wednesday 07 March 2012
The convicted "hippie painter" behind Germany's most spectacular art-forgery scandal has revealed that he faked the works of at least 50 famous painters over a career spanning decades and started because he wanted to "have fun, travel and meet women".
German painter forged masters' works to 'meet women and travel'
Wednesday 07 March 2012
The so-called 'eternal hippie' sold faked works to auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's
Fifty years of Hockney are sold in one night
Saturday 18 February 2012
Bidders scramble for a piece of Britain's 'greatest living artist'
Age of austerity? £74m spent on Taylor's bauble collection
Thursday 15 December 2011
Asian buyers fuel record bids for glittering array of Hollywood star's diamonds and pearls
Liz Taylor's jewellery collection fetches £74m at auction
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery collection fetched a record-setting 115 million dollars (£74 million) at auction - including more than 11.8 million dollars (£7.6 million) for a pearl necklace.
Sachin Tendulkar passes 15,000 Test runs for India
Tuesday 08 November 2011
India's Sachin Tendulkar added another record to his impressive collection when he became the first batsman to score 15,000 Test runs today in the first test against West Indies.
Suarez breaks silence in Evra race row
Tuesday 08 November 2011
Luis Suarez, the Liverpool forward, has risked the wrath of the Football Association by speaking for the first time about the allegation he racially abused Manchester United's Patrice Evra at Anfield last month.
Antonio Cassese: Visionary judge who brought war criminals to justice
Saturday 05 November 2011
Antonio Cassese was an internationally renowned Italian judge who headed two international war crimes tribunals.
Nottingham beats Harvard to be the talk of the town
Thursday 03 November 2011
Win in the International Varsity Debate for the city's university team speaks volumes
Williams plans Welsh farewell
Monday 31 October 2011
Wales wing Shane Williams says he plans to retire from international rugby after his country's next match against Australia in December.
Argyle buyer pressed over £230,000 wages
Thursday 11 August 2011
The joint administrators of Plymouth are taking the firm hoping to buy the club's Home Park ground to court, requiring Bishop International Limited to pay £230,000 "immediately" to cover staff and player wages for August.
Johnny Vegas: And Another Thing..., Manchester International Festival: Pavilion Theatre
Thursday 14 July 2011
There were a couple of noisy walk-outs in the second half of this new Johnny Vegas offering. They could just have been clumsy people anxious not to miss their last bus. Or they might have been from a TV shopping channel, or Leeds, two of the objects of Vegas's gratuitous insults.
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