Banksy artwork removed from wall of Bristol community centre and put up for auction
The piece, Gorilla In A Pink Mask, appeared at the former social club in the elusive artist’s home city in 2001.
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The piece, Gorilla In A Pink Mask, appeared at the former social club in the elusive artist’s home city in 2001.
The whiskey is a 16-year matured single malt from the George Roe distillery.
It was expected to fetch between €100k and €150k.
Reverie by Jack Butler Yeats had a guide price of up to €700,000.
Several items of Nazi memorabilia fetched hundreds of thousands of Euro at the auction.
Cobain wore the cardigan during Nirvana’s 1993 Unplugged performance.
Devolved Parliament went under the hammer in London last night.
The cars were seized amid a money-laundering probe.
O’Connor made headlines in recent days after performing her Nothing Compares 2 U hit on the Late Late Show.
The world champion boxer has been receiving bids for her 2015 National Elite belt.
Girl with Balloon will be shown from tomorrow through to 3 March at the Frieder Burda museum.
The letter was written in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind.
The Memory Man’s collection includes books and magazines from as far back as the 1960s.
The rectangular-cut diamond has been graded “fancy vivid” – the highest possible grade of colour intensity.
A copy of his thesis smashed pre-sale expectations four times over to sell for £584,750.
“It appears we just got Banksy-ed.”
The future of Sky’s ownership has been uncertain for nearly two years.
The pearl once belonged to Catherine the Great.
Modigliani’s masterpiece Nu couche (sur le cote gauche) fetched the highest price in Sotheby’s history.
The breast plate he wore in Gladiator went for €78,000.
The woman had no idea what the painting was worth when she first bought it.
A host of items from Howl at the Moon and the Residence Club are to be sold off.
The giant skeleton was bought by the chief executive of a French waterproofing company whose logo is of the prehistoric mammal.
The robe also contained a USB stick with Klitschko’s prediction for the fight.
Only about 20 mostly retired people still live in the cluster of decaying homes.
The piano will go on display in St Stephens Green Shopping on Monday, and is open for bids until Christmas Eve.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first museum to bear the Louvre name outside France.
Some of the furniture is unused and still in it’s original packaging.
The 500-year-old painting was sold by the Russian boss of the soccer club AS Monaco.
Original seats from the Stella Cinema in Rathmines are also up for grabs.
The estimated sale price was less than half of that.
A woman bought the bag at an auction.
The painting of a skull-like head in oil-stick was valued pre-sale in excess of $60 million.
It’s a realistic Ivory penis.
“To my knowledge, the bidder hasn’t seen the picture in the flesh, so to speak,” says James O’Halloran of Adam’s Auctioneers.
The vessel has a long and distinguished service record.
“This was Hitler’s mobile device of destruction.”
It’s owner says he longer feels an obligation to keep it here.
The sale, which was expected to fetch between €700,000 and €900,000, broke records for the highest sale for a single cartoon drawing.