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Christie’s is auctioning the skeletons of an adult and a juvenile Allosaurus, sold as a pair, with an estimated price of between £5–8 million, as well as a Stegosaurus fossil, valued between £3–5 million.

Created in 1887, the painting is estimated to fetch between $30 and $50 million. If it sells for the upper estimate of $50 million, it will become the most expensive work by a Western artist ever sold at auction in Asia, surpassing the current record-holder, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Warrior (1982), which sold for $41.7 million at Christie’s in 2021.

Salomi Economidi is a classic case of a genuine talent who did not want to follow in her parents’ professional footsteps but instead was driven by the artistic concerns she had from an early age.

There are Romanians who have come to the United Kingdom because they found the prospects for a decent life there. Others have chosen British citizenship for cultural reasons - the love of Shakespeare. Some admit that if things do not go according to plan, they can always return home to Romania, and others know very clearly that the United Kingdom is their home for now.

A rare blue diamond has sold in Geneva for just over $17 million, as Sotheby’s eyed total sales in excess of $100 million at the autumn jewel auctions.