In a sea of jewels, one particular stone has been stealing the show. A rare 10-carat pink diamond will be on display at Christie's Auction House in New York City. The Marie-Thérèse Pink Diamond is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marie Antoinette has been portrayed as the spendthrift wife who meddled in the political affairs of her weak-willed husband, Louis ...

Pablo Picasso’s most curious painting of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, in which she appears as a tentacled sea creature, has sold for $67.5 million, over the estimate of $60 million. “Femme nue ...

A painting by Pablo Picasso portraying his former lover Marie-Thérèse Walter as a sea creature with tentacles sold for just over $67.5 million in an auction on Tuesday. "Femme nue couchée," or “Naked ...

Christie’s forthcoming “Magnificent Jewels” auction will feature a bevy of historic pieces, including a diamond once owned by Marie Antoinette. The live auction will take place on June 17 at New York ...

And there’s quite a story behind the gem. As the tale goes, right before Marie Antoinette attempted to escape from Paris (known as the Flight to Varennes), the famed royal collected her treasure trove ...

Pablo Picasso’s Nature morte à la fenêtre, will be the top lot of Christie’s 20th-century evening sale with an estimate in the region of US$40 million, the auction house announced early Friday. The ...

The original oil canvas of a large-scale Pablo Picasso portrait of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, painted in the critical year of 1932, will hit the auction block for the first time next month at ...

Marie Antoinette has been portrayed as the spendthrift wife who meddled in the political affairs of her weak-willed husband, Louis XVI. But she was also a devoted mother to her four ...

Pablo Picasso’s “Femme nue couchée” (“Naked woman reclining”), a portrait of his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, could sell for more than $60 million when it makes its auction debut next month.

Works by impressionist and modern stalwarts Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Paul Cézanne drove Sotheby’s modern auction on Tuesday night to a total US$408.5 million, a result the auction house said ...