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...Vincent Van Gogh's Irises fetches $53.9 million at auction...
High culture and low culture come together once again, this time on a giant canvas of JERRY HALL. Painter Lucian Freud, who has turned down offers to paint Queen Elizabeth and Pope John Paul II (and has had one of his pieces sold at auction for $5.8 million), painted the statuesque wife of MICK JAGGER. Best known for disturbing portraits of fleshy naked women, Sigmund's grandson shows the leggy Texan both pregnant and with her then infant son. The paintings will be premiered at London's Tate Gallery on Wednesday...
What he captured so adroitly about our culture, our culture clearly wants more of. Just last month, Sotheby's sold his Orange Marilyn, 1964, for a new Warhol record at auction: $17.3 million. Somewhere St. Andy is smiling...
...movie star's most important jobs is to look like you're having the most spectacular time of anybody's life, and nobody is better at it than SHARON STONE. Chairing a celebrity auction in Cannes for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, Stone hit the hammer for one lucky bidder, who won a mini-concert from Elton John and Ringo Starr--and, though not listed in the auction book, backup singing from Miramax head Harvey Weinstein. With Harvey as inspiration, Stone did what appeared to be the frug in a sequined dress that, seemingly against the actress's will...
...none of those appeal, how about a ride in the cockpit of a Concorde flight simulator? British Airways has offered its Executive Club members that experience at auction in exchange for 143,500 miles, says Elizabeth Weisser, director of Executive Club and its various partnerships. Other auction awards have included an African safari, a five-day cooking course with master chefs in Italy and a golf outing in Scotland. "People want experiences that are unique and different," Weisser says...