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<description><![CDATA[FindLotsOnline have selected a range of news articles related to the art, antique, collectables and design worlds, which are aimed at keeping you up-to-date with news in these areas. Additionally we present views, articles of interest written by the team at Find Lots Online and guest journalists.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[This $4 Thrift Store Vase Just Snagged $100,000 at Auction]]></title>
<link>https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/a46118152/carlo-scarpa-pennellate-vase-thrift-store-results/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It’s a story straight from any thrifter’s wildest dreams. An Italian glass vase purchased for $3.99 at a Goodwill outside of Richmond, Virginia, today sold for $107,100, including the buyer’s premium, at an auction in New York.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Did that $4 thrift shop painting really sell for $191,000? Nope.]]></title>
<link>https://artdaily.com/news/164703/Did-that--4-thrift-shop-painting-really-sell-for--191-000--Nope-</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New York - Tracey Donahue’s lucky break has been well documented: She strolled into a Savers thrift store years ago, purchased a $4 painting that struck her fancy, and then discovered it was, in fact, a rare and valuable N.C. Wyeth illustration.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verdura Cuff, Burmese Sapphire Shine at Bonhams]]></title>
<link>https://nationaljeweler.com/articles/12499-verdura-cuff-burmese-sapphire-shine-at-bonhams</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New York—A rare 1930s Verdura for Chanel cuff and a Burmese sapphire were the stars of the Bonhams New York Jewels sale on Monday. The gem-set and enamel “Maltese Cross” cuff nearly doubled the high end of its pre-sale estimate, selling for $432,300.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Some spectacular results at D+H, Davidson & Bonhams and why you need to be in the room at auctions]]></title>
<link>https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/why-you-need-to-be-in-the-room-at-auctions-20231129-p5enqn</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A missed call was a missed opportunity for a would-be buyer when Deutscher and Hackett staff couldn’t get them on the line in time to bid at the auction house’s final sale of the year in Sydney last week...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Like ‘light fittings’: Murdoch family to sell underappreciated art]]></title>
<link>https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/like-light-fittings-murdoch-family-to-sell-underappreciated-art-20231115-p5ek3w</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Three beguiling paintings that for generations hung in obscurity at a Murdoch family grazing property are to come to market with the expectation they will fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. The works, by Arthur Streeton, Emanuel Phillips Fox and Fred...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Antipodeans old and new carry hopes at end-of-year sales]]></title>
<link>https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/antipodeans-old-and-new-carry-hopes-at-end-of-year-sales-20231101-p5egmj</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Australia’s two biggest art auction houses are shaping up for the painterly equivalent of a heavyweight championship, as buyer enthusiasm for expensive art objects remains apparently undented by this year’s succession...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Menzies’ $3m-$5m Indigenous collection to sell, but not at Menzies]]></title>
<link>https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/menzies-3-5m-indigenous-collection-to-sell-but-not-at-menzies-20230920-p5e65v</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A large painting by the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye is estimated to fetch between $400,000 and $600,000 when it is rolled out as the star of an auction of artworks from the estate of maverick Australian art auctioneer Rod Menzies.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A $4 Thrift Store Find Sells for $191,000 at Auction]]></title>
<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/arts/design/wyeth-painting-thrift-store-auction.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A woman found a rare N.C. Wyeth illustration while rummaging through frames at a Savers in New Hampshire. You can walk out of the Savers in Manchester, N.H., with a shirt for as little as $4.99. Framed artworks too big for shelves...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Belle-Île indeed: Record smashed in biggest sale in a decade]]></title>
<link>https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/belle-le-indeed-record-smashed-in-biggest-sale-in-a-decade-20230823-p5dyp7</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The auction price record for Australian Impressionist paintings was broken when John Peter Russell’s vividly coloured Souvenir de Belle-Île, (Marianna Russell with Goats, Goulphar, Belle-Île), 1897, sold for $4 million at a blockbuster sale in Melbourne l...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Was the rolled-up painting in the dog walker's closet worth millions?]]></title>
<link>https://artdaily.cc/news/159637/Was-the-rolled-up-painting-in-the-dog-walker-s-closet-worth-millions-</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New York City - In March 2022, Mark Herman, a dog walker and recreational drug enthusiast in upper Manhattan, New York, came into possession of a dog, a painting and a story. The painting, which belonged to Silver, may be a lost work by artist Chuck Close...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia’s Magna Carta: precious document bought in 1952 for £12,500 now worth $35m]]></title>
<link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/16/australias-magna-carta-precious-document-bought-in-1952-for-12500-now-worth-35m?utm_term=64b34f23f92ded144b4b86715f0e062c&amp;utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=GTAU_email</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Australia’s 1297 edition of Magna Carta, bought in 1952 for £12,500, is now worth $35m. The precious document, the “foundation stone of constitutional and parliamentary government”, is in storage at Parliament House in Canberra while a new display case is...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Melbourne's Centenary Cake Clock found on Queensland farm to be auctioned at Gibson's in Melbourne]]></title>
<link>https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/centenary-cake-a-slice-of-melbourne-s-history-found-on-queensland-farm-20230619-p5dhmb.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It was found stashed away in a tin shed in coastal Queensland, dismantled and beginning to tarnish. But Cathy and Phillip Harth didn’t throw away the pieces of the old silver clock, which they would soon discover was a rare Melbourne artefact.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Abandoned Brett Whiteley sells for $1.1m in Dallas]]></title>
<link>https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/abandoned-brett-whiteley-sells-for-1-1m-in-dallas-20230530-p5dch7</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A mystery party who abandoned a painting by Brett Whiteley at an American art museum in 1968 has missed out on a tidy $US705,000 after the picture was sold at auction in Dallas, Texas. Offered with an estimate of US$10,000 - 15,000, Nude Beside the Basin,...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Indigenous artists join Basquiat as NY season ramps up]]></title>
<link>https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/indigenous-artists-join-basquiat-as-ny-season-ramps-up-20230517-p5d8zd</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It’s spring in New York and the annual art auction season is bursting out all over. Already the hammer has fallen on some dizzying prices and amid all this international glamour, Australia will command its own small but significant stage...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bought for $100, this Banksy could sell for $650,000 at D+H]]></title>
<link>https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/bought-for-100-this-banksy-could-sell-for-650-000-20230418-p5d1em</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Standing in front of a Banksy screenprint that he estimates will hammer for $450,000 to $650,000 next month, Deutscher and Hackett auctioneers’ senior art specialist Henry Mulholland...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[John Olsen: the last of Australia’s great generation of artists]]></title>
<link>https://www.smh.com.au/national/john-olsen-the-last-of-australia-s-great-generation-of-artists-20230207-p5cif9.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[JOHN OLSEN: “I am the landscape and the landscape is in me,” declared the artist John Olsen, who has died aged 95. A colossus in the story of Australian art, he was the last of a generation of greats who included...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rosalie Gascoigne works cheap at half the price at Menzies?]]></title>
<link>https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/rosalie-gascoigne-works-cheap-at-half-the-price-20230315-p5cs7m</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Major artworks safeguarded for decades in private collections are sure to elicit interest when they come under the hammer for the first time in Menzies’ Important Australian and International Art auction in Melbourne on March 29.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Musée D'Orsay ordered by Paris court to return four masterpieces by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin stolen during Second World War]]></title>
<link>https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/16/paris-court-orders-musee-dorsay-to-return-four-nazi-looted-masterpieces-by-renoir-cezanne-and-gauguin?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=83e1f2b4bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_02_16_11_38&amp;utm_medium=em</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Paris administrative court last week ordered the Musée d’Orsay to restitute four masterworks by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin, which were stolen during the Second World War and sold to the Nazis, to the heirs of the hugely influential French art dealer Am...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gregory Peck’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Script Goes to Auction]]></title>
<link>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gregory-peck-to-kill-a-mockingbird-harper-lee-auction-180981612/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For decades, the late actor Gregory Peck has captivated audiences with his portrayal of Atticus Finch. Now, Peck’s admirers have a chance to own a small piece of his legacy. Nearly 250 items that once belonged to Peck and his wife, French journalist and p...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bundanon Art Museum: Australian Figurative Art’s New Home in Southern NSW]]></title>
<link>https://themarketherald.com.au/fancy/bundanon-art-museum-australian-figurative-arts-new-home-in-southern-nsw/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bundanon Art Museum: Australian Figurative Art’s New Home in Southern NSW
In 2020, some of the worst fires to ever hit Australia came within one kilometre of Australian artist Arthur Boyd’s historic place of residence and his entire collection was evacua...]]></description>
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