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The third major contemporary art auction this week brought in another $88.9 million, including a record price for a Jean Michel Basquiat work, despite the mixed quality over all.

Artist Thomas Kinkade's death last month was from an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium, according to the Santa Clara County, California, medical examiner.

It's a scream that's still reverberating around the world. One of the most iconic images in art history - Edvard Munch's "The Scream" - has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. During an intense 12 minutes, the 1895 artwork - a modern symbol of human anxiety - was sold at Sotheby's in New York City on Wednesday for a record $119,922,500. Neither the buyer's name nor any details about the buyer was released.

A still life once thought to be by Vincent van Gogh but later downgraded to the work of an anonymous artist because of doubts about its authenticity is indeed by the tormented Dutch impressionist, researchers said Tuesday.

A Picasso painting, given to the Athens National Gallery by the artist himself, has been stolen along with two other valuable works.

Experts have reclassified a painting as a Rembrandt after years of attributing it to one of the Dutch master's students. Ernst van de Wetering of the Rembrandt Research Project said Friday that X-ray analysis of "Bearded Old Man" has revealed outlines of a self-portrait of Rembrandt as a young man underneath.

BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia's interior minister says two Pablo Picasso paintings owned by a German museum and stolen from a Swiss exhibition have been found in Belgrade.

An Italian researcher says the main influence and model for the "Mona Lisa" was a male apprentice of the artist Leonardo da Vinci....

A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least euro60 million ($79.35 million), an administrator of the artist's estate said Monday.

Egyptian authorities stopped two people suspected in the theft of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, nabbing them just moments before they were to board a plane and flee the country, according to Egypt's official news agency, MENA.