Some of the most iconic American Western art is heading to auction at Christie’s in New York.

Some of the most iconic guitars in rock history are going on display in London before they go under the hammer at auction.

The online auction of a trove of letters, photos and other items that Pattie Boyd, who was at the heart of the Swinging 60s, has surpassed all expectations.

Pattie Boyd was at the epicenter of the Swinging 60s, but not always the center of attention.

A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch $64 million at auction next month.

The classic image of Tyrannosaurus rex flashing giant teeth might be wrong.

A company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors.

Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.5 billion during the first part of Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G.

Some 150 artworks from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G.

Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” has sold for a cool $195 million.

A 1911 “Shoeless” Joe Jackson autographed photograph by Frank W.

(Christie's via AP)LONDON – A digital art piece, tweaked using cryptocurrency technology to make it one-of-a-kind, sold at auction this week for nearly $70 million. One purpose of NFTs is that they can be used to trace an object's digital provenance, allowing a select few to prove ownership. Beeple is an American digital artist based in South Carolina whose real name is Mike Winkelmann. Digital artist Anne Spalter started out as an NFT skeptic but has now sold multiple artworks using the tokens. “They’re investors, they’re tech entrepreneurs, they’re in that world.”BUT WHO WOULD SPEND $70 MILLION ON ONE?

This undated photo released by Christie's on Thursday, March 11, 2021 shows a digital collage titled Everydays: The First 5,000 Days," by an artist named Beeple. The piece sold for $69.4 million in an online auction, positioning him among the top three most valuable living artists," Christie's said via Twitter on Thursday. The piece, titled “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days," sold for $69.4 million in an online auction, “positioning him among the top three most valuable living artists," Christie's said via Twitter on Thursday. Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann, responded to the sale result with an expletive on Twitter. And the Associated Press is offering NFT digital artwork - a depiction of the U.S. presidential election's electoral college map as viewed from space.

(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)LONDON – A painting by Winston Churchill that is a piece of both political and Hollywood history is coming up for auction. He painted it after the January 1943 Casablanca Conference, where Churchill and Roosevelt planned the defeat of Nazi Germany. He said Churchill captured the view in the “wonderful, evocative painting” and gave it to Roosevelt as a memento of the trip. AdThe painting is being sold by the Jolie Family Collection as part of Christie’s March 1 modern British art auction in London. “The record price at auction for Churchill is about 1.8 million (pounds) for a painting that, in my view, is not as important as this,” he said.

NEW YORK – Two of crime fiction's most famous storytellers, Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, also knew how to get a laugh. According to Tony Medawar, producer of the International Agatha Christie Festival (in Devon, England), Christie likely drew upon her own childhood in setting a playful atmosphere, with the kids showing proper irreverence for the supposedly world famous detective. “Christmas Adventure" also is appearing in the upcoming Christie collection “Midwinter Murder,” which comes out Oct. 20. "‘Christmas Adventure’ is a particularly light-hearted story," Medawar says. Chandler's employer guide, according to Chandler scholar Dr. Sarah Trott, was likely written in the early 1950s, when Chandler hired a private secretary, Juanita Messick.

Stan, one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil discovered, is on display, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, at Christie's in New York. Stan's head on the display is a casting of the original, which is too heavy for the display. The legend of the Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Stan is getting fresh life thanks to Christie’s. The auction house put his bones on display starting Wednesday through floor-to-ceiling windows at its midtown Manhattan gallery in advance of putting them up for auction. Researchers also marveled at how the skull had large puncture wounds, speculating that they were the result of T. rex warfare.

DALLAS – Works of art depicting the American West and other pieces collected by the late Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens are expected to sell at auction for more than $15 million. Christie's said Thursday that the auction will be held Oct. 28 in New York. Pickens, who grew up in Holdenville, Oklahoma, died last Sept. 11 at the age of 91 at his Dallas home. The house is now at Karsten Creek Golf Club, which is the home of Oklahoma State's golf teams. Pickens, who donated more than half a billion dollars to the university, is buried outside his childhood bedroom window.

After an eight-week delay caused by France's COVID-19 lockdown, the Christie's auction house in Paris is hosting a raffle draw Wednesday for "Nature Morte," an oil on canvas that Picasso painted in 1921. Raffle organizers say they have already raised 5 million euros ($5.4 million) by selling 50,000 tickets online for 100 euros ($109) each. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)PARIS An Italian accountant whose son bought her the raffle ticket as a Christmas present won a Pablo Picasso oil painting valued at 1 million euros ($1.1 million) in a charity draw Wednesday. Organizers valued the painting, Nature Morte, or Still Life, as being worth 1 million euros. The small still life, which is signed Picasso, shows a newspaper and a glass of absinthe on a wood table.

Raffle organizers Peri Cochin, left, and Arabenne Reille put the painting "Nature morte" by Picasso in its frame at Christie's auction house, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 in Paris. Raffle organizers say they have already raised 5 million euros ($5.4 million) by selling 50,000 tickets online for 100 euros ($109) each. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)LE PECQ Hows this as an antidote for coronavirus blues: A genuine painting by Pablo Picasso on your wall. Raffle organizers say they have already raised 5 million euros ($5.4 million) by selling 50,000 tickets online for 100 euros ($109) each. He always wanted to be reasonably priced, that everybody can afford to buy Picasso, Nahmad said.

A statue of ancient Egyptian leader Tutankhamun was auctioned this week, despite protests from Egypt that the object was obtained illegally. LONDON - An Egyptian statue resembling the pharaoh Tutankhamun has been sold for 4.7 million ($5.97 million) at a London auction, despite protests from Cairo that the relic may have been stolen. The 11-inch statue with features reminiscent of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun was sold by Christie's, the auction house said on Thursday. Officials from the Egyptian embassy in London asked the UK Foreign Office to return the statue. According to Christie's, the statue is "a remarkable representation of the young king" Tutankhamun.