Sentence examples for valuable artworks from inspiring English sources

Increasingly, guards are also being hired by private galleries when they are showing extremely valuable artworks.

Second, they have to secure loans of incredibly valuable artworks from museums that might be reluctant to share.

At Christie's auction house, he was often used as good-looking bait to "seal the deal" with rich socialites who were considering buying valuable artworks.

Nearly all of the most valuable artworks stolen in the last decade have been recovered and the culprits put behind bars, the police said.

True, any successful effort to liquidate D.I.A. art would precipitate a series of events likely to lead to its closing, but we are a very long way from actions that would "denude its prestigious collection of its most valuable artworks".

Over the years, the bookkeeping responsibilities of the brother had expanded to include managing his father's considerable business affairs, which in part involved selling valuable artworks to museums and collectors around the world.

A stray fingerprint is not something you generally want to find on a valuable artwork — unless Leonardo da Vinci left it there.

The returns do say that, without Mr. Miller's tenancy, the foundation would have had to employ a security firm to guard its valuable artwork.

But he used it all to steal — not only money and valuable artwork, but also family heirlooms, memories of loved ones and connections to the past.

The prospective buyer, who was not identified, originally offered $19 million for the painting, regarded as a masterpiece of modern German art and the museum's most valuable artwork.

He said that there was no sign of forced entry and that other valuable artwork and possessions had not been taken.