Titian's 'Rest On The Flight Into Egypt' was stolen in 1995 before being reunited with its owner Lord Bath years later.

Painting stolen and then found in carrier bag sells for £17.5m

Among the collection was the Dire Straits frontman's 1959 Vintage Gibson Les Paul Standard which achieved £693,000, setting a new auction record. 

Mark Knopfler's guitar collection fetches almost £9million at auction

A Christie's art handler holds up Mark Knopfler's 1983 Les Paul Standard '59 reissue guitar, which forms part of the Mark Knopfler Guitar Collection, on display at Christie's in London, before it is offered at auction.

The collection is made up of more than 120 guitars and amps spanning Knopfler's 50-year career, with one expected to fetch up to £500,000.

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler's guitar collection under the hammer

Carol Hardy, from Cumbria, is taking part in a clinical trial at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester.

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Missing masterpiece Recumbent Magdalene was found in a London garden and is expected to fetch up to £8 million at auction this summer.

Garden sculpture turns out to be lost masterpiece worth millions

Undated handout photo of a drawing of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci which is expected to fetch up to ??12 million at auction. The picture, titled Head Of A Bear, is being sold in London by the Christie's auction house sold on July 8. Issue date: Saturday May 8, 2021.


The picture, titled Head Of A Bear, is being sold in London by the Christie’s auction house.

Drawing of a bear expected to fetch up to £12m at auction

The painting first appeared at Southampton General Hospital last May, during the first wave of the pandemic.

Banksy's 'Game Changer' raises more than £14m for health projects

The previous record for a living artist was American Jeff Koons's Balloon Dog sculptures, which went for £45.6 million in 2013.

Hockney painting sells for record-breaking £70 million in New York

Sylvie Sulitzer recovered her grandfather's painting with the help of the FBI but may have to sell the artwork to repay compensation.

French woman faced with selling Nazi-stolen Renoir looted from her grandfather

Salvator Mundi, Italian for Savior of the World, fetched $450 million (£341 million) when it went under the hammer.

Leonardo painting smashes record fee for artwork

58 lots are going on sale at Christie's this month devoted to just one subject - model Kate Moss.

The Kate Moss collection, costing up to £60,000

From a triceratops' skull to a flying machine, weird and wonderful items are to go on display ahead of a major auction next month.

Christies displays an Out of Ordinary wacky sale

Works by numerous famous artists have gone on display ahead of an auction on Wednesday evening.

Christies prepares for modern art auction

A work by the English romantic painter John Constable tonight sold for £22,441,250 - a world record price at auction for the artist.

John Constable painting sells for record £22.4m

A unique prize from the very first modern Olympic Games has set a record price at auction. 

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