Lost Masterpieces

Salvador Dalí's lost painting, called Vecchio Sultano, which was supposed to be part of the painter's 1966 The Arabian Nights collection, has been sold at auction for a little over $60K.

SALE OF A LIFETIME

Lost Salvador Dalí Art Bought for $200 Sells for Huge Amount

“It was just extraordinary,” the original buyer said of the sale.

Georgina DiNardo

Titian’s The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

MA$TERPIECE

Stolen Titian Found at Bus Stop Sells for $22 million

The work's dramatic history includes being looted by Napoleon.

Owen Lavine

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LUXURY LOO

The Gold Toilet Stolen From Churchill’s Childhood Palace

Prankster artist Maurizio Cattelan installed his famous solid-gold potty in a British palace—and then it vanished. Performance art ... or brazen heist?

Allison McNearney

Lost Masterpieces

The Crystal Palace Stunned NYC—Until It Burned Down

It was loosely based on the London structure of the same name, and was built, stunningly, of cast-iron and glass. But disaster would rob NYC of a building that never became iconic.

Allison McNearney

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Lost Masterpieces

His Magnum Opus Was an Arabic Sex Guide. His Wife Burned It.

Sir Richard Francis Burton’s wife Isabel feared ‘The Scented Garden’ would not be read in the ‘spirit of science,’ but ‘for filth's sake.’ Her fiery solution brought more scandal.

Allison McNearney