The works in One, such as Dyson's acrylic painting, Value and Resources (Water Table #10), Mendez's found photo, let X stand, if it can for the one's unfound (After Proceso Pentágono) II and Gladman's drawing, Untitled, Scope, explore geography, location, violence and the limitations of text images in examining race, environment, and history.
Adam Mars Jones is getting a colourful painting valued.
The painting, valued at £30m to £50m, was stolen in broad daylight from Drumlanrig castle, in Dumfries and Galloway, in 2003.
Other Warhol works in the sale include a 1.2 metre Flowers painting valued at £3m-£4m and one of his last self-portraits, Pink Fright Wig, estimated at £2m-£3m.
Stolen Chagall Retrieved Raiding an expensive restaurant in St .Petersburg, Russia, the police foiled a smuggler who was about to receive a stolen Marc Chagall painting valued abroad at $1 million, Reuters reported.
Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss, but on other occasions — as when lips meet a painting valued at $2.7 million — a kiss could be a crime.
A van Gogh painting valued by some experts at $50 million was stolen from a Cairo museum on Saturday, Egypt's minister of culture announced.
The first claimant case was resolved when the Matisse painting, valued at $20 million, was awarded to the Rosenberg heirs on June 11, despite competing claims.
Two of the Spanish artist's oil paintings are expected to fetch the highest bids, according to Christie's: Women and Birds from 1968, which has an estimated sale price of £4m-7m, and Painting, valued between £2.5m and 3.5m.
A gift of a painting valued at £100,000 shelters £100,000 of income from tax at the time of the donation, saving the donor £40,000 that would have gone to the Treasury.
"Being a bureaucrat, I need a receipt," said the Customs Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, turning over the magazine-sized oil-on-wood painting, valued at $5 million, to Dr. Thomas Fohl, vice director of the Kunstsammlung museum in Weimar.
