• Winston Churchill portrait, which the UK ex-PM himself disliked, to be auctioned

  The painting, by modernist artist Graham Sutherland, was painted in preparation for a larger portrait that Churchill hated and was later destroyed...

• 'Friends' script signed by iconic sitcom cast up for auction in honor of the late Matthew Perry

  Fans of the iconic TV series Friends will have the chance to own a piece of the show's history and pay tribute to its late star, Matthew Perry...

• Action Comics No. 1 goes under hammer for record $6M, becoming world’s most expensive comic book

  Of the original 200,000 copies printed, only 100 copies of Action Comics  No. 1 remain...

• Only in Dubai: Phone number goes under hammer for almost $900,000

  The buyer's name has not been disclosed...

• Original Sherlock Holmes manuscript could sell for $1.2M at auction

  One summer evening in 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde dined at the Langham Hotel in London with American businessman and editor of the monthly magazine Lippincott, J. M. Stoddart...

• Kobe Bryant's NBA championship ring sells for nearly $1M at auction

  The owner of five of these rings, which were a shining testament to his storied career, ordered an additional diamond-encrusted replica of the ring to give to his father, Joe Bryant...

• Marilyn Monroe's pink dress from Pucci goes under hammer for $325,000

  Marilyn Monroe's dress and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's tuxedo and slippers were sold at auction over the weekend. The long-sleeved silk jersey Pucci dress fetched $325,000, according to the Hollywood Reporter...

• Wooden panel made famous by movie ‘Titanic’ sells for more than $700,000 at auction

  Among the items in the Treasures of Planet Hollywood auction, the wood panel that saved the life of Rose DeWitt Boucketer (Kate Winslet) in James Cameron's 1997 romantic epic sold for a whopping $718,750, according to a press release from Heritage Auctions...

A royal blue print of Queen Elizabeth II set a new auction record for an Andy Warhol edition print last week after being sold in Toronto, Canada for $1,141,250 Canadian ($855,600 USD), ARTnews reported.

The diamond-dusted Royal Edition is one of four images of the late monarch from Warhol’s 1985 “Reigning Queen” series.  The piece was sold at the Heffel auction house on November 24, and its closing amount, which includes fees and buyer’s premiums, far exceeded the estimate of $375,000–$450,000. This work was based on a photograph of the Queen taken by Peter Grugeon in 1977, when Elizabeth II celebrated the silver anniversary of her accession to the throne.

Photo: Andrew Matthews/AP 

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