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Rare Winston Churchill despatch boxes from Second World War go to auction

The pieces will be sold next week in Christie’s Exceptional Sale: Masterworks Across Cultures

The Independent UK

“It’s bittersweet to be parting with these guitars but I want them to go to new homes and new people who will love them as much as I have”: Johnny Marr is auctioning off his most-famous guitars

After documenting them in Marr's Guitars, the indie icon couldn't bear consigning them to storage once more, and they'll be auctioned via Christie's in September

MusicRadar

Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man

Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Bernard Sumner

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“I couldn’t imagine them being put away and left unplayed”: Johnny Marr to sell nearly 100 pieces of gear at auction – including prized Smiths-era guitars

Guitars that have featured on some of the Smiths’ biggest songs, and moonlighted in Oasis, are up for grabs

Guitar World

Rare first edition of ‘Wuthering Heights’ (complete with spelling mistakes) to go up for auction

It’s the first copy of the Gothic novel in the publisher’s original cloth binding to be auctioned since 1908.

Euronews

Rare first edition of Wuthering Heights to be auctioned for first time since 1908

The auction comes as the romance continues to captivate new audiences, fueled by a recent big-screen adaptation

The Independent UK

Bronze Rodin sculpture to go under hammer for up to £1.5m

The piece, Eve au Rocher, will feature as part of a series of six specialist sales at Christie’s.

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Kate Middleton Says Cancer 'Changes You Physically and Emotionally' During Moving Hospital Visit

The Princess of Wales visited The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, highlighting holistic cancer care, emotional wellbeing, and art therapy.

International Business Times UK

Rare JMW Turner watercolour of Swiss landscape heads to auction

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The Independent UK

‘Evocative’ painting by JMW Turner expected to fetch up to £600,000 at auction

The ‘luminous’ Turner painting is going under the hammer at a Christie’s auction.

Evening Standard

Famous JMW Turner painting set to fetch up to £600,000 at auction

Since the British artist’s death in 1851, the watercolours from his final tours of Switzerland have become some of his most celebrated and highly prized works on paper

The Independent UK

What Christie's $1.45 billion blockbuster art auction tells us about the 'Great Wealth Transfer'

Some $1 trillion worth of art will change hands over the next decade.

Fortune

Churchill on canvas: London exhibition for rarely seen paintings by Britain's wartime leader

Winston Churchill place in history is secured by his role as Britain's wartime leader but his private and prolific passion for painting is less known. Now, a new exhibition at London's Wallace Collection aims to explore his life as an artist.

Euronews

Ellie Bamber on playing Kate Moss: ‘She's one of the most photographed women — that's scary’

The walk, the accent, the laugh — even the smoking. Turning into Kate Moss was the challenge of a lifetime for Ellie Bamber, who plays the supermodel in a new film

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'Ocean Dream' blue-green diamond sells for more than $17 million at Christie's auction in Geneva

Christie's says a 5.5-carat triangular-cut diamond billed as the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond known to exist has sold for more than 13.5 million Swiss francs or $17.3 million

Louder

"The whole truck just disappeared, all our gear, gone!" How a $40,000 robbery in New Orleans in 1970 forced Pink Floyd's David Gilmour to purchase what has become the highest-priced guitar in history

"The police hadn't helped us much, but the FBI got to work"

Evening Standard

King’s congress address was the words of a ‘wise friend’ – Lionel Richie

The King and Queen are coming to the end of a four-day state visit to America.

Euronews

'The quintessential Pop portrait': Roy Lichtenstein’s Anxious Girl goes up for auction

The rarely seen Pop Art painting is expected to fetch up to $60 million (approximately €51 million) at Christie's sale next month.

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“When I started this business, I had two kinds of people: those who believed in it and those laughing at me”: Who is buying $15 million guitars? One of the world’s leading dealers lifts the veil on the collectible guitar market

At 32, Matthieu Lucas hosts guitars wielded by the likes of Slash, Eric Clapton and AC/DC at Parisian guitar emporium Matt’s Guitar Shop. He is driven by his core belief that vintage guitars, once owned by legendary musicians, are meant to be played on stage again

The Independent UK

Andrew Lloyd Webber auctions priceless wine collection for children’s music charity

Among the highlights are three bottles of 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc, each potentially reaching £15,000, and a magnum of 1961 Chateau Haut-Brion, valued at up to £4,000

Evening Standard

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber auctioning ‘remarkable’ wine collection for charity

Lord Lloyd-Webber revealed he is a ‘recovering alcoholic’ and regularly attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in an interview at the weekend.

The Guardian - UK

Paris art enthusiast wins €1m Picasso painting in €100 charity raffle

Ari Hodara initially thought it might be a hoax after winning raffle he found out about by chance while dining out

Euronews

Smash, grab and go: What happens to stolen artworks after a successful heist?

Once you successfully steal artworks, what comes next? With stricter regulations around the buying and selling of art, looted pieces often embark on complicated and mysterious journeys.

Evening Standard

Fretting over a safe spot for your cash? Look to the unlikely world of rock ’n’ roll

As a guitar owned by David Gilmour sells for $14.5m, tripling its value in seven years, Chris Blackhurst looks at other memorabilia that could make your investment portfolio comfortably numb

The Independent UK

Heirs to Bic fortune in nasty legal battle over 15th-century masterpiece allegedly stolen by family chauffeur

Exclusive: At the center of the saga is ‘Saint Sixtus,’ a 1454 painting believed to be among the last works Fra Angelico created before he died the following year

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