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Stories by Benedict Carpenter van Barthold - Contributor

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:07 AMBenedict Carpenter van Barthold - Contributor

Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait, El Sueño (La Cama), or The Dream (The Bed), has sold for US$54.7 million (£41.4m) at Sotheby’s New York. It is now the most expensive Latin American artwork in history, and has set the auction record for a female...

Published:Sunday | December 1, 2024 | 12:11 AMBenedict Carpenter van Barthold - Contributor

On the evening of November 20, Sotheby’s auction house sold an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan for an astonishing sum. The piece, titled Comedian, is not a conventional painting or sculpture. It consists of an ordinary banana, duct-taped to a wall at...

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