Auctions

07 November 2007 -- A painting by French artist Henri Matisse was the top seller at an art auction in New York City Tuesday night.

An unidentified buyer paid nearly $34 million for a 1937 Matisse portrait ("L'Odalisque, Harmonie Bleue"). It was far above the estimated $20 million set by Christie's auction house. The price broke the record of nearly $22 million paid for a Matisse painting at London's Sotheby's auction house in June.    » read more »

Aug 23, 2007 -- LITTLE ROCK – While online auction scams are not new, scammers are becoming more sophisticated and going to greater lengths to defraud consumers. Today, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel wants to draw attention to a particularly shocking scam in order to encourage Arkansans to exercise caution when shopping on Internet auction sites.    » read more »

22 June 2007 -- Some 1,500 people perished when the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic while on its maiden voyage in 1912. An upcoming auction of ocean liner memorabilia will include artifacts from the ill-fated ship.

Telegrams from survivors of the Titanic are just some of the items up for sale Thursday at Christie's auction house in New York.

The 18 Titanic artifacts also include the ship's first-class passenger list, a roll call of prominent New York families. The list is expected to bring in between 15- and 20-thousand dollars.    » read more »

Phony Bids Cheat eBay Shoppers Nationwide; Merchant To Pay Hundreds Of Thousands of Dollars in Compensation

New York, NY (June 7, 2007) - New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a crackdown on a nationwide online auction fraud scheme that tricked consumers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.    » read more »