Imagine finding a super-valuable painting in your attic or at a flea market. While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered ...

Tech titans have a taste for expensive art. We've rounded up some of the biggest purchases here. Bill Gates set what was then an American art record when he bought Winslow Homer's "Lost on the ...

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But at least initially, the budget for expensive artwork to hang in U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide remained robust. The State Department planned, for instance, to purchase a $650,000 ...

He also owns a painting by George Bellows called "Polo Crowd." Gates bought the piece anonymously at a Sotheby's auction in 1999, paying a whopping $27.5 million to add it to his collection.