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“And Just Like That” in which Carrie donned it for her eccentric Met Gala look. The headpiece, designed in the 1800s with preserved parts from the endangered Bird of Paradise, will be auctioned off as part of Sotheby’s inaugural Fashion Icons sale with bidding starting on Aug. 31 and ending Sept.

will go up for auction in a single-lot Sotheby’s sale next month, the auction house told The Post. What’s more: The jersey, from the famed “Last Dance” season, carries a cool estimate of $3 million to $5 million.That marks the highest estimate for any piece of Jordan memorabilia, according to the auction house.

Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece that was kept hidden by a French family for more than 100 years now has a new home. The pricey painting, titled “A Street Scene in Montmartre,” sold Thursday during an auction livestreamed from Paris. It trafficked exorbitantly high phone and online bids from art enthusiasts in the French capital, as well as in New York and Hong Kong.Although Van Gogh’s freshly exhumed tour de force went for a little over $15 million, it initially fetched a staggering $16.47 million

Sotheby’s Festival of Wonder luxury series, by making use of some of the sale’s most exquisite jewels and watches.Peter Walker, who choreographed and directed the piece, told The Post that he was happy to provide some “artistic relief from this crazy time” to viewers who have been pummeled by the pandemic. “The New York City Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ is synonymous with the holiday season in New York, and it’s a holiday tradition for many many New Yorkers,” said Walker, 28.

hip-hop memorabilia auction — which featured a one-of-a-kind Def Jam Recordings jacket, a triptych of pioneering DJs painted by Fab 5 Freddy and Judith Leiber’s crystal-encrusted handbag inspired by a boombox — the crown’s original purchaser said he didn’t buy the royal-rig for its gold content and embedded jewels.“This crown is a novelty item; I bought it at a place on Broadway called Gordon’s,” said Barron Claiborne, a 57-year-old photographer who lives in Brooklyn.

missive he sent Madonna, whom he briefly dated in the Nineties, went to auction last year after Madonna had tried to stop the sale.)As for the Biggie lot, the autographed crown is the same one the Brooklyn rapper wore during his “King of New York” photoshoot with Barron Claiborne in 1997, just days before he was shot and killed. The lot will come with three unique prints from the shoot, made and signed by Claiborne, plus the contact sheet.

Banksy has donated a triptych of paintings referencing the European migrant crisis to a charity auction raising money for a hospital in Bethlehem.

A painting by the Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky has sold for £2,295,000, becoming the highest value painting sold in an online-only sale.

One of the world’s oldest bottles of Cognac has been sold for £118,580.

A manuscript written by Bob Dylan which features handwritten song lyrics is set to be auctioned.