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Basquiat Painting Fetches Record $48.8M

The graffiti artist set a new auction record at a sale of contemporary art

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Basquiat Painting Sold
Buy 'Air Force One' for $50,000
'Little Pastry Chef' Sells for $18 Million
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$1,000 Bill Sells for $2.5 Million
Lock of Hair Fetches Nearly $18k
Liberty Head Nickel Sold
Christie's Auctions Giant Egg
Francis Crick's Nobel Medal
Francis Crick Memorabilia Sold
Letter Sells For Record Amount
Honus Wagner Baseball Card Sells for $2 Million
Dennis Hopper's Belongings Sold
'Miracle' Jersey Expected to Bring in More than $1 Million
World's Most Expensive Pacifier
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$1.41 million silver nickel
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First Book Published in N. America to be Sold
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$100,000 Kitchen Range for Sale
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Van With Cobain's Graffiti Sold
Rare Ferraris to Be Auctioned
Kanye West, Kim Kardashian in a Lamborghini
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Rare Baseball Card Sold For $1.2M
'Little Pastry Chef' Sells for $18 Million
"Le petit patissier" (the "little pastry chef") by Chaim Soutine sold for $18,043,750 at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York on May 8, 2013. The sale set a new world auction record for the artist. (Christie's)
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