And interest here - 450,000 now, 450... MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Bidding, starting there at 450,000 pounds, just over $1/2 million for a painting by the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

With fees and all, the painting ended up selling for 945,000 pounds. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, nonprofit news organization that produces award-winning journalism ...

Paintings by Russian artists Ivan Aivazovsky ... The nighttime landscape painted in 1858 was bought for 983,000 pounds ($1.39 million), practically doubling the estimated price of the piece ...