12 h. ago Lost Salvador Dalí painting bought for £150 sold at auction for £45,700

Illustration of ‘old sultan’ by surrealist artist found at a house clearance sale by Cambridge antiques dealerTo the untrained eye, it looks more like an alien has landed on Chewbacca’s head than a masterpiece by Salvador Dalí.But the watercolour and felt-tip painting – bought two years ago for £150 – has been sold at auction for £45,700, after it was identified as a lost illustration of an “old sultan” by the great surrealist artist. Continue reading...

Economics

63 h. ago Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk equipment to go on sale, expected to fetch up to $650,000

Auction in US includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France videoHe was a pioneer of electronic music whose band Kraftwerk redefined the sound of pop and influenced artists from David Bowie and New Order to Coldplay and Run-DMC.Now the electronic equipment and musical instruments Florian Schneider used to create some of the band’s best-known songs in the 1970s and 1980s could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars when they are sold at auction next month. Continue reading...

Economics

63 h. ago Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk instruments put up for auction in US

Sale includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France videoHe was a pioneer of electronic music whose band Kraftwerk redefined the sound of pop and influenced artists from David Bowie and New Order to Coldplay and Run-DMC.Now the electronic equipment and musical instruments that Florian Schneider used to create some of the band’s best-known songs in the 1970s and 1980s could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars when they are sold at auction next month. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago Russell Watson on keeping stuff he doesn’t need: ‘I am a hoarder’

The singer tells Lisa Salmon how he sold some of his possessions on Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House: ‘My wife calls it rubbish, I call it stuff’

Politics

2 w. ago Floating Land Rover used to cross Bering Strait is to be sold at auction

Adventurer and cattle farmer Steve Burgess made the journey as part of the Cape to Cape Expedition.

Politics

2 w. ago Have you news of My Boy Jack? Rudyard Kipling's heartrending search for his only son after he went missing fighting in WWI is revealed in The Jungle Book author's pleading letters

In one of the two letters being sold at auction, Kipling pleads with the matron of a military hospital to ask injured soldiers about the whereabouts of his son John.

Culture

4 w. ago Trainer of Kia Joorabchian’s £4.5million horse ‘not expecting fireworks’ on debut

Poker, the most expensive yearling colt sold at auction in the world last year, was talked of as a potential Derby winner but trainer Karl Burke has played down expectations

Economics