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An Andy Warhol painting of an old-fashioned Coca-Cola bottle sold for $35.36 million at a Sotheby's auction of post-war art. The sale of 54 works raised $222.4 million including commissions, Reuters reported. Ninety-one percent of the works found a buyer. "In this new market, it was a huge...

Andy Warhol's Self-Portrait garnered a record $32.6 million price at Sotheby's. It wasn't the only record breaker at the sale, signaling buyers' rising confidence in the market.

After a year and a half of art market anguish, there are signs of a comeback, with the tone set by Lucian Freud's black eye. The coming wave of contemporary art auctions are estimated to be 68% higher than last year, bringing a renewed hope to collectors around the world.

Ask any investor, and he'll tell you the best place to enter the market is at the bottom. Buy low and sell high, right? The institutional crowd knows this lesson best, and after a rocky year in traditional financial markets, many are now drawn to what seems to be the market bottom for a more...

Sometime between Sept. 2 and Sept. 3, a burglary occurred at a home along Angelo Drive in West Los Angeles. Businessman Richard Weisman lost a collection of 10 silkscreened Andy Warhol paintings of famous athletes, including Muhammad Ali, Pele, Tom Seaver, O.J. Simpson, Dorothy Hamill, and...