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At Rs 630 crore, 'The Scream' is world's most expensive painting

Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream', considered one of the most recognisable in art world, was sold for over $119 million (Rs 630 crore), creating a new record for the highest price ever......

45 years on, FIR lodged for theft of Rajendra Prasad's watch

 More than 45 years after the country's first PresidentRajendra Prasad's 18K pink gold Rolex Oyster watch was stolen, acase has been lodged in Patliputra police station in Patna, policeon Tuesday......

Bihar: Locals protest to stop auction of Rajendra Prasad's watch

 Bihar News/People of the native village of country's first PresidentRajendra Prasad protesting against auction of his wrist watch. Hundreds of people of native village of the country's......

India's first President's Rolex winds up at Sotheby's

 Descendants of the country's first President Rajendra Prasad are losing hope of bringing his 18K pink gold Rolex Oyester watch, that is being auctioned by Sotheby's in Switzerland. "We, the......

British PM David Cameron to visit India

 Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron, who heads the Conservative-Liberal Democrats coalition government, would visit India later this year, official sources said on Friday.Cameron, who has......

Rowling pens Harry Potter prequel

British author J K Rowling has written an 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series for charity.The book, which was written almost a year after the seventh and last book Harry Potter and the......

J K Rowling's final adieu to Harry Potter

J K Rowling, the author of the iconic Harry Potter book series,has bid goodbye to the boy wonder and his friends in the form of a set of handwritten fairy tales.The only catch is that you and I may......

Psst! Wanna buy an Oscar?

You win an Academy Award. You make a speech, walk off the stage with your statue, bring it home, and you put it on the mantle. Very cool. But what if someday you wanted to--or worse, needed......

SRK, Ash, & Bryan Adams together

What would a charity dinner be without stars? Well, that's not a question the Reach Out To Asia launch has to worry about, as Qatar's most star-studded night promises to be truly massive. The......

John Lennon's sticky business

Heard of John Lennon, the postage stamp designer?A set of stamps, depicting a clenched fist, which the late Beatle designed to support a strike by postal workers, sold for for 1,260 ($2,000) at a......

World's oldest soccer rule book sold for $1.4mn

The world's oldest soccer rule book dating from the 1850s was sold for £881,250 ($1.4 million) at a Sotheby's auction in London, the book's owners Sheffield FC said on their website on Thursday.......

Lewis Hamilton aims for three titles

Lewis Hamilton needs two more Formula One championships to get his hands on the $8 million (5 million pounds) car of his dreams.The 23-year-old McLaren driver, looking relaxed and considerably more......

'83 heroes relive World Cup win at Lord's

It was a journey down the memory lane as India's 1983 World Cup heroes relived the historic occasion by walking down the pitch and then victorious captain Kapil Dev opening a champagne bottle from......

Babe Ruth bat sells for $1.26 mln

The Curse of the Bambino may have ended this year but Babe Ruth proved to have plenty of clout at the auction table as the bat he used to hit the first homer at Yankee Stadium sold for $1.265......

  People speak for sothebys

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Q. Who has drawn the famous "The Massacre of the Innocents" painting ? And for how much it was sold in the auction 2002?
:  A. Peter Paul Rubens, painted in 1611,was sold to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet for 49.5 million ($76.7 million) at Sotheby\'s auction. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-has-drawn-the-famous-the-massacre-of-the-innocents-paint//answers/17582143

Lavanya
Q. The battle in which Tipu Sultan was killed?????
Lavanya:  A. Battle of Seringapatam, 1799: Srirangapattana was the scene of the last and decisive battle fought between Tipu Sultan and the British forces led...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/the-battle-in-which-tipu-sultan-was-killed/17582102/answers/4668705

JADU
Q. Who is the world's best known and most expensive living female phographer ?
JADU :  A. Setting a new record for the category of worlds most expensive living female artist is a South African born artist Marlene Dumas. And this is made...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-is-the-worlds-best-known-and-most-expensive-living-femal/4668668/answers/12692314

mahesh chandra
Q. "Garcon a'la Pipe" is the famous painting of which artist?\Which unique record this painting holds?
Mahesh Chandra:  A. Pablo Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe" - yes I think the worlds most expensive painting sold at auction by Sothebys in New York. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/quotgarcon-ala-pipequot-is-the-famous-painting-of-which-arti/12692211/answers/12300490

prashant sharma
Q. Which is costliest Watch ?
Prashant Sharma:  A. One of the most complicated watches ever made, it also became the most expensive watch ever sold when it was hammered down for $11 million at...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/which-is-costliest-watch-/12286088/answers/11384217

  Web results for Sothebys
Federal agents might seize Khmer statue

American museums, including the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, are home to thousands of Khmer objects with murky ownership histories.NEW YORK... ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/asia/la-et-cambodia-antiquities-20120406,0,4381712.story?track=rss
Sotheby's sued for return of 10th century Cambodian statue

Sotheby's the auctioneers is being sued for the return of a 10th century sandstone statue which prosecutors claim was looted from a temple in... ...

http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568631/s/1e2113d1/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0Cnews0Cworldnews0Casia0Ccambodia0C91886150CSothebys0Esued0Efor0Ereturn0Eof0E10Ath0Ecentury0ECambodian0Estatue0Bhtml/story01.htm
Record-breaking bowl shines at Sotheby's Asia sales

HONGKONG-SOTHEBYS:Record-breaking bowl shines at Sotheby's Asia sales ...

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/wire-news/record-breaking-bowl-shines-at-sothebys-asia-sales_689420.html
Record-breaking bowl shines at Sotheby's Asia sales

HONG KONG (Reuters) - An unidentified buyer smashed the world auction record for Chinese Song dynasty ceramics after a bidding war for a... ...

http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/lifestyle/~3/8yf2026qIBM/us-hongkong-sothebys-idUSBRE8340LJ20120405
US seeks to return Khmer statue to Cambodia

NEW YORK: US prosecutors announced they have launched civil action against auction house Sotheby's, seeking the forfeiture of a 10th century Khmer... ...

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1193291/1/.html
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