Auction

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This isn't an average online auction - the items featured in the auctions on this programme are a little more valuable than most of what is found online. `Auction' features art masterpieces and other luxury items that are sold to the highest bidder at some of the world's most prestigious auction houses. Featured items include antique cars, sculptures, rare musical instruments, jewellery and artefacts from historic events. Bidders interested in the auction lots better place their bids before the items are `going... going... gone'.

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Episode 1Auction

The world's great auction houses open their doors as letters written by Giuseppe Verdi, a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and a rarely seen Picasso go under the hammer. (S10, ep 1)

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Episode 2Auction

A rare painting by Christopher Nevinson comes to Sotheby's, while bidders scramble for the last painting by Winston Churchill - of his beloved goldfish pool at Chartwell. (S10, ep 2)

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Episode 3Auction

Salvator Mundi, the long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ commissioned by King Louis XII, is set to break all records at auction at Christie's in New York. (S10, ep 3)

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Episode 4Auction

The skeletons of a woolly mammoth family - found on a building site in Siberia in 2002 - are auctioned in Sussex. Meanwhile, American art goes under the hammer in New York. (S10, ep 4)

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Episode 5Auction

Twenty-five years after her death, some of Audrey Hepburn's possessions come up for sale at Christie - and the public interest is intense. (S10, ep 5)

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Episode 6Auction

Ehrenbreitstein, one of the finest paintings by JMW Turner still in private hands, is up for auction at Sotheby's in London where it is expected to fetch around £20million. (S10, ep 6)

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Episode 7Auction

Sotheby's auctions a range of paintings from the 20th and 21st centuries which are no bigger than the size of the catalogue page on which it is illustrated, in actual size. (S10, ep 7)

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Episode 8Auction

A work by Le Corbusier joins a host of Old Masters and modern British and Irish paintings up for auction at Bonhams. (S10, ep 8)

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Episode 9Auction

Married to Laurence Olivier, the actress Vivien Leigh had star quality and Sotheby's are hoping her name will attract bidders to a two-day sale of her possessions. (S10, ep 9)

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Episode 10Auction

At the Goodwood Revival festival in Sussex Bonham's are auctioning a range of stunning classic cars, as well as a selection of vintage aeroplanes. (S10, ep 10)

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Episode 11Rockefeller Special

It could be the most expensive sale in the history books as the extraordinary art collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller comes to Christie's in New York. (S10, ep 11)

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