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Gandhi like never before!

A sketch by John Henry Amshewitz and correspondence to Sarat Chandra Bose's family will go under the hammer at a Sotheby's auction on July 11. IMAGE: The pencil sketch was drawn when Mahatma......

Sotheby's sells Gandhi archive to India

India has purchased a rich archive comprising thousands of letters and documents related to Mahatma Gandhi, including those on his controversial relationship with architect Hermann Kallenbach.......

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......

Gandhi, Nehru letters in Sotheby's auction

A series of signed and autographed letters by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and some documents and postcards will figure in a Christie's sale in London on July 14.Three of Gandhi's......

SGPC threatens legal action against Sotheby's

Sotheby's -- London's premier auction house -- may have clarified that the rare armour it has put on its auction list does not belong to Guru Gobind Singh but the chapter is "not closed" for the......

Sotheby's India debut gets lukewarm response

The auction was watched closely as it comes at a time when other major names like Christie's have pulled out of India.Pavan Lall reports. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Sotheby's Sotheby's inaugural......

Tyeb Mehta's painting fetches Rs 11 crore at Sotheby's auction

Modernist painter Tyeb Mehta's work Blue Painting sold for over Rs 11 crore (1.1 million pounds) at Sotheby's London auction, which grossed Rs 46.4 crore (4.6 million pounds), the highest......

Global auction firm partners with eBay to sell art online

Global auction house Sotheby's has partnered with Internet shopping major eBay to make it easier for people across the world to discover, browse and acquire works of art, antiques and collectibles.......

Indian art's millionaire club swells at Sotheby's

The orgy of escalating prices for Indian art continued in New York where Sotheby's auctioned a record 148 modern and contemporary works (and, in an additional session, 30 miniature paintings,......

Stocking in on art

At the Sotheby's New York auction on September 24 this year, stock market consultant Yogesh Jain forked out a cool $37,000 to purchase Francis Newton Souza's "The Paraclete", a 93x72 cm oil on......

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......

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......

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Billionaire Patrick Drahi snaps up Sotheby's in $3.7 billion deal

Patrick Drahi, the billionaire behind telecoms and media group Altice, agreed on Monday to buy Sotheby's in a deal worth $3.7 billion, marking the... ...

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French Billionaire To Acquire Sotheby's Auction House For $3.7 Billion

French telecoms and media mogul Patrick Drahi is acquiring Sotheby's auction house, one of the world's biggest art brokers, in a $3.7 billion deal,... ...

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Khakhar's Two Men in Benares fetches over Rs 22 crore at Sotheby's

Khakhar, who was gay, first unveiled Two Men in Benares in Mumbai in 1986. ...

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Artist Bhupen Khakhar's Painting Sells For Record 22 Crores At Auction

The 1982 work became the most expensive painting by Mr Khakhar, leaving behind his "De-luxe Tailors" (1972) that sold for Rs 9.71 crore at the... ...

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Sotheby's to auction 'substantial' lock of Beethoven's hair

British auction house Sotheby's plans to sell on Tuesday what it says is a "substantial" lock of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair that the German... ...

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